From family to police force: security and belonging on a South Asian border
Policing everyday life on a border -- Militarism and everyday peace: gender, labor, and policing across "civil-military" terrains -- Policing Muslim marriage: the specter of the "Bengali" wife -- Blood and water: the "Bengali" wife and close-kin marriage among Muslims -...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY London
Cornell University Press
2021
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| En: | Año: 2021 |
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| Disponibilidad en Tübingen: | Disponible en Tübingen. UB: KB 21 A 2737 |
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| Sumario: | Policing everyday life on a border -- Militarism and everyday peace: gender, labor, and policing across "civil-military" terrains -- Policing Muslim marriage: the specter of the "Bengali" wife -- Blood and water: the "Bengali" wife and close-kin marriage among Muslims -- The work of belonging: citizenship and social capital across the Thar desert. "Based on ethnographic research in the western Indian borderland region of Kutch, this book is an anthropological inquiry into forms of policing. It suggests that policing must be considered beyond its institutional and militarized sites, as an integral aspect of the family and the ways in which kinship is forged" -- |
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| Notas: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Descripción Física: | xiv, 188 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781501759536 9781501759543 9781501759567 9781501759550 |
