Kinship and Continuity is a vivid ethnographic account of the development of the Pakistani presence in Oxford, from after World War II to the present day. Alison Shaw addresses the dynamics of migration, patterns of residence and kinship, ideas about health and illness, and notions of political and religious authority, and discusses the transformations and continuities of the lives of British Pakistanis against the backdrop of rural Pakistan and local socio-economic changes. This is a fully updated, revised edition of the book first published in 1988.
Kinship and Continuity is a vivid ethnographic account of the development of the Pakistani presence in Oxford, from after World War II to the...
..".an engaging multi-disciplinary reflection on a common theme, namely, cross-cousin marriage. The collection offers perspectives - sociological, anthropological, historical, clinical and political - on the practice of cousin marriage and particularly as this distinctive marital strategy gains visibility." - Bob Simpson, Durham University
"This book deals with an important, rich and understudied topic: the impact of new genetic understandings of close marriage and its possible health risks on marriage practices and understandings of kinship in cross-cultural perspective. It offers...
..".an engaging multi-disciplinary reflection on a common theme, namely, cross-cousin marriage. The collection offers perspectives - sociological, ...
