Pnina Werbner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pnina Werbner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pnina |
| FAMILY NAME | Werbner |
| SIGNATURE | WERBNER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 246 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Against Exoticism: Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology
Anthropology begins in the encounter with the ‘exotic’: what stands outside of—and challenges—conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological…
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives
Adultery Redefined: Changing Decisions of Equity in Customary Law as "Living Law" in Botswana
Adultery judgments in customary courts in Botswana reflect changing everyday practices and normative understandings both with regard to marriage and broader ideas of gender equality. These changed perceptions parallel a worldwide shift in the legal understanding of adultery from being a crime to a civil offense and then, more recently, a non offense. Social change movements and judicial reforms responsive to both regional and international gender…
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division Of Labour
First published in 1986, Maria Mies’s progressive book was hailed as a major paradigm shift for feminist theory, and it remains a major contribution to development theory and practice today. Tracing the social origins of the sexual division of labour, it offers a history of the related processes of colonization and 'housewifization' and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labour. Mies's theory of capitalist pat…
Mothers and Daughters in Historical Perspective: Home, Identity and Double Consciousness inBritishPakistanis' Migration and Return
Scholarly interest has increasingly focused on the predicament of second-generation counter-diasporic return migration to an ancestral homeland. The present paper portrays two generations ofPakistani middle class women migrants: two mothers, who arrived inManchester in the 1970s, and their daughters, who both returned to live inPakistan, one at the age of 11 and the other in her twenties, to marry. The latter in particular experiencedPakistan as …
Imagined diasporas among Manchester Muslims: The public performance of Pakistani transnational identity politics
Embodying Charisma
Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite banks and skyscrapers. This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and poli…
The place which is diaspora: Citizenship, religion and gender in the making of chaordic transnationalism
The paper argues for a need to analyse the organisational and moral, as well as the aesthetic dimensions of diasporas in order to understand their political and mobilising power. Organisationally, diasporas are characterised by a chaordic structure and by a shared sense of moral co-responsibility, embodied in material gestures and extended through and across space. Ultimately, there is no guiding hand, no command structure, organising the politic…
Embodying Charisma: Modernity, locality and the performance of emotion in Sufi cults
The place which is diaspora: Citizenship, religion and gender in the making of chaordic transnationalism
The paper argues for a need to analyse the organisational and moral, as well as the aesthetic dimensions of diasporas in order to understand their political and mobilising power. Organisationally, diasporas are characterised by a chaordic structure and by a shared sense of moral co-responsibility, embodied in material gestures and extended through and across space. Ultimately, there is no guiding hand, no command structure, organising the politic…
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division Of Labour
First published in 1986, Maria Mies’s progressive book was hailed as a major paradigm shift for feminist theory, and it remains a major contribution to development theory and practice today. Tracing the social origins of the sexual division of labour, it offers a history of the related processes of colonization and 'housewifization' and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labour. Mies's theory of capitalist pat…
Mothers and Daughters in Historical Perspective: Home, Identity and Double Consciousness inBritishPakistanis' Migration and Return
Scholarly interest has increasingly focused on the predicament of second-generation counter-diasporic return migration to an ancestral homeland. The present paper portrays two generations ofPakistani middle class women migrants: two mothers, who arrived inManchester in the 1970s, and their daughters, who both returned to live inPakistan, one at the age of 11 and the other in her twenties, to marry. The latter in particular experiencedPakistan as …
Adultery Redefined: Changing Decisions of Equity in Customary Law as "Living Law" in Botswana
Adultery judgments in customary courts in Botswana reflect changing everyday practices and normative understandings both with regard to marriage and broader ideas of gender equality. These changed perceptions parallel a worldwide shift in the legal understanding of adultery from being a crime to a civil offense and then, more recently, a non offense. Social change movements and judicial reforms responsive to both regional and international gender…
Embodying Charisma: Modernity, locality and the performance of emotion in Sufi cults
Imagined diasporas among Manchester Muslims: The public performance of Pakistani transnational identity politics
Embodying Charisma
Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite banks and skyscrapers. This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and poli…
The place which is diaspora: Citizenship, religion and gender in the making of chaordic transnationalism
The paper argues for a need to analyse the organisational and moral, as well as the aesthetic dimensions of diasporas in order to understand their political and mobilising power. Organisationally, diasporas are characterised by a chaordic structure and by a shared sense of moral co-responsibility, embodied in material gestures and extended through and across space. Ultimately, there is no guiding hand, no command structure, organising the politic…
Mothers and Daughters in Historical Perspective: Home, Identity and Double Consciousness inBritishPakistanis' Migration and Return
Scholarly interest has increasingly focused on the predicament of second-generation counter-diasporic return migration to an ancestral homeland. The present paper portrays two generations ofPakistani middle class women migrants: two mothers, who arrived inManchester in the 1970s, and their daughters, who both returned to live inPakistan, one at the age of 11 and the other in her twenties, to marry. The latter in particular experiencedPakistan as …
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division Of Labour
First published in 1986, Maria Mies’s progressive book was hailed as a major paradigm shift for feminist theory, and it remains a major contribution to development theory and practice today. Tracing the social origins of the sexual division of labour, it offers a history of the related processes of colonization and 'housewifization' and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labour. Mies's theory of capitalist pat…
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives
Adultery Redefined: Changing Decisions of Equity in Customary Law as "Living Law" in Botswana
Adultery judgments in customary courts in Botswana reflect changing everyday practices and normative understandings both with regard to marriage and broader ideas of gender equality. These changed perceptions parallel a worldwide shift in the legal understanding of adultery from being a crime to a civil offense and then, more recently, a non offense. Social change movements and judicial reforms responsive to both regional and international gender…
Against Exoticism: Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology
Anthropology begins in the encounter with the ‘exotic’: what stands outside of—and challenges—conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological…
Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Charisma (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · 20th century (2 works)