Lexington Books
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-8391-5 • Hardback • December 2013 • $114.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-4985-5638-5 • Paperback • March 2017 • $52.99 • (£41.00)
978-0-7391-8392-2 • eBook • December 2013 • $47.50 • (£37.00)
T. Thao Pham, PhD, is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Politics of Space and Place
Chapter 2: Gender and Migratory Honor
Chapter 3: Traditional Marriages and Honor
Chapter 4: Transnational Endogamy
Chapter 5: Virgins and Virtues
Chapter 6: Dishonor and Its Discontents
Chapter 7: Divorce and Singlehood
Chapter 8: Veiling and Embodied Honor
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author
A sophisticated ethnography of female Moroccan migrants in Spain in which the concept of honor (once the defining attribute of Mediterranean study) is impressively rekindled to probe and frame the sociocultural changes and accommodations necessitated by transnational marriage. In these respects and more, Pham’s book is a most welcome contribution to anthropology and its emerging study of social institutions under cross-cultural pressure in transnational space and time.
— Lambros Comitas, Columbia University