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ISBN | 9780199403431 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Bib. Info | xviii, 390p. Includes Index ; Bibliography |
Product Weight | 700 gms. |
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Based on Nafisa Shah's unique insights over years of experience as a journalist, researcher, and administrator, this fascinating study highlights how the state justice system and informal processes of redress are mutually implicated in providing a space for honour-related violence in the Sindh province, known as karo-kari. The author persuasively argues, however, that the label, karo-kari, masks diverse underlining factors such as contest over leadership, resources, marital strategies, and uses the language of honour as a means of legitimating and appropriating power. The book is a sensitive, scholarly, lucid, and coherently argued treatise on the topic of honour killings. It contains fascinating and richly-detailed ethnography and engages on issues of concern across the anthropology of gender, politics, and law. This landmark study offers a new perspective for understanding and dealing with honour-related violence, demonstrating that honour does not lead to violence but that such violence is strategy 'masked in honour'.