Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women
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 to work as carers and maids, re-imagine and recreate themselves in moral and ethical terms in the diaspora. This timely collection shows how women international migrants, stereotypically represented as a 'nation of servants', reclaim sacralised spaces of sociality in th…
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Weitere Autoren: Johnson, Mark (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-98323-1
- EAN: 9781317983231
- Produktnummer: 29873490
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'536 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Pnina Werbner is Professor of Social Anthropology at Keele University.Mark Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at The University of Hull.
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