Focusing on the case of the Hazaras, a population from central Afghanistan, the book shows how migration studies and transnationalism are at the heart of theoretical and methodological debates which animate anthropology.
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L'autore:
Alessandro Monsutti has carried out several field researches in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran since 1993. Having been educated at the Institute of Ethnology of the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), he teaches social anthropology and methods in social sciences at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (Geneva).
Contenuti:
Foreword, Dale F. Eickelman
Introduction
I Issues and Method
1. Migration and Transnationalism in the Anthropological Debate
2. From Theory to Field: Investigations in a Context of Conflict and Migration
II The Locations
3. Hazarajat: Kinship and Neighbourhood in the Village
4. Quetta (Pakistan): the Hazara Refuge
5. Work Migration to Iran
III The Flow
6. Forms and Strategies of Population Movement
7. Transfers of Money and Goods
8. Ways of Communicating
IV Results and Analysis
9. Trust and Cooperation amid Conflict and Migration
Conclusion and epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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- EditoreRoutledge
- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 0415514762
- ISBN 13 9780415514767
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero edizione1
- Numero di pagine346