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  • AFRICAN CUSTOMARY JUSTICE
    PNINA WERBNER / RICHARD WERBNER
    This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the vitality and continued relevance of customary justice at a time when customary courts have waned or even disappeared in many postcolonial African nations. Taking Bo...

    $1,200.00

  • THE MIGRATION PROCESS
    PNINA WERBNER
    This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South Asians to emerge throughout the Western industrial world since the Second World War - the British Pakistanis in Manchester. This book examines the cultural dimensions of immigrant entrepreneurship and the formation of an ethnic enclave communi...

    $1,160.00

  • ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE NEW COSMOPOLITANISM
    PNINA WERBNER
    Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the premise that cosmopolitanism is not, and never has been, a 'western', elitist id...

    $1,100.00

  • DIASPORIC JOURNEYS, RITUAL, AND NORMATIVITY AMONG ASIAN MIGRANT WOMEN
    PNINA WERBNER AND MARK JOHNSON
    The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women migrants from South and South East Asia, Christians, Muslims and Buddhists, who migrate to Asia, Europe and the Middle East ...

    $1,420.00