ABSTRACT

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 emerge throughout the Western industrial world since the Second World War - the British Pakistanis in Manchester. This book examines the cultural dimensions of immigrant entrepreneurship and the formation of an ethnic enclave community, and explores the structure and theory of urban ritual and its place within the immigrant gift economy.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

part I|70 pages

Capital Accumulation

part II|145 pages

The Gift Economy: Women, Gifts and Offerings

part III|118 pages

Conspicuous Giving and Public Generosity

chapter Chapter 8|32 pages

Hierarchical Gift Economies

chapter Chapter 9|45 pages

Wedding Rituals and the Symbolic Exchange Of Substance

chapter Chapter 10|23 pages

The Organisation of Giving and Immigrant Elites

chapter |16 pages

Conclusion