@Book{84532232X, author="Shah, Nafisa", title="Honour and violence: gender, power and law in southern Pakistan", series="New directions in anthropology Volume 39", year="2016", edition="First published", publisher="Berghahn Books", address="New York", keywords="Honor killings; Pakistan; Sindh; Women; Legal status, laws, etc; Family violence; Violence; Dispute resolution (Law)", contents="IntroductionGhairat, karo kari and the spectacles of violence: how men and women become black -- Honour violence, law and moral power in colonial Sindh -- Karo kari, wali and family violence: cultural violence mirroring law -- Violence, kin groups and the feud: the making of frontier justice -- Mediations on the frontier: ceremonies of justice, ceremonies of faislo and the ideology of kheerkhandr -- The criminal justice and legal contests of honour: two case studies -- The sound of the silence: lives, narratives and strategies of runaway and missing women of upper Sindh -- Conclusion.", note="Nafisa Shah", note="Includes bibliographical references and index", note="Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gew{\"a}hrleistet FID XA-DE-BW pdager DE-16-77", isbn="9781785330810", language="English" }