Pnina Werbner

Exploration of the formation of a distinctive working class identity among low-paid manual workers in Botswana

Exploration of the formation of a distinctive working class identity among low-paid manual workers in Botswana

This text is the product of research into a transnational Sufi Naqshbandi order. It aims to elucidate the complex organization of Sufi orders as regio

This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South Asians to eme

A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of IsraelIn this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the li

This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary co

This timely collection shows how Asian women transnational migrants, stereotypically represented as a 'nation of servants', claim sacralised spaces of

The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropolo

This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations.

An examination of the Sufi Cults which exist in all areas of India and Bangladesh. Provides details of the resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and t

Is multiculturism simply a novel project of social engineering? This book rejects this view by demonstrating that multiculturalism is the political ou

Is multiculturism simply a novel project of social engineering? This book rejects this view by demonstrating that multiculturalism is the political ou

Explores the central role the aesthetic played in energising the massive mobilisations of young people, the disaffected, the middle classes and the ap

In this text scholars from various disciplines discuss citizenship and its relation to gender, ethnicity, class and national status. They focus on the

Explores the aesthetic dimensions of the Arab Spring and the worldwide protest movements that followed. This book also explores the central role the a

Blends personal, political and existential dimensions in detailed evocations of the ambitions and vulnerabilities of contemporary Africans.