Beschreibung:
An examination of the economic and cultural implications of the massive national and international movements of ordinary people in a single Muslim society - Pakistan. Topics covered range from nationhood and nationalities to migration, death and martrydom in rural Pakistan.
Family and low income housing in Karachi, Frits Selier; security and value - squatter dwelling in Karachi, Jan van der Linden; the impact of migration on Pakistan's economy and society, Omar Noman; marriage and power - tradition and transition in an urban Punjabi community, Michael Fischer; Pakistani women in a changing society, Hamza Alavi; competing doctors, unequal patients - stratified medicine in Lahore, Wenonah Lyon; nationhood and the nationalities in Pakistan, Hamza Alavi; factionalism and violence in British Pakistani communal politics, Pnina Werbner; Ulema and Pir in the politics of Pakistan, Saifur Rahman Sherani; migration, death and martyrdom in rural Pakistan, Akbar S. Ahmed.