ISBN 9780253218841 | 0253218845 Textbooks - "Zenana Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building" by Laura A Ring Ring

Authors: Laura A. Ring - Ring
ISBN 10: 0253218845
ISBN 13: 9780253218841
Release: November 9, 2006
Format: Paperback (224 pages)
List Price: $21.95
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Tags: History, World, Islamic,

Book Description:
Ethnic violence is a widespread concern, but we know very little about the micro-mechanics of coexistence in the neighborhoods around the world where inter-group peace is maintained amidst civic strife. In this ethnographic study of a multi-ethnic, middle-class high-rise apartment building in Karachi, Pakistan, Laura A. Ring argues that peace is the product of a relentless daily labor, much of it carried out in the zenana, or women’s space. Everyday rhythms of life in the building are shaped by gender, ethnic and rural/urban tensions, national culture, and competing interpretations of Islam. Women’s exchanges between households—visiting, borrowing, helping—and management of male anger are forms of creative labor that regulate and make sense of ethnic differences. Linking psychological senses of "tension" with anthropological views of the social significance of exchange, Ring argues that social-cultural tension is not so much resolved as borne and sustained by women’s practices. Framed by a vivid and highly personal narrative of the author’s interactions with her neighbors, her Pakistani in-laws, and other residents of the city, Zenana provides a rare glimpse into contemporary urban life in a Muslim society.

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