Pnina Werbner

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Pnina Werbner is affiliated with the following schools: Keele University, Manchester University , University of Manchester

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Pnina Werbner's Degrees

PhD Social Anthropology University of Manchester
Bachelors Social Anthropology University of Manchester

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According to Wikipedia, Pnina Werbner was a British social anthropologist. Her work focused on Sufi mysticism, diasporas, Muslim women and public sector unions in Botswana. She has written extensively about the Arab Spring. Werbner was married to anthropologist Richard Werbner, and was the niece of Max Gluckman.

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Global pathways. Working class cosmopolitans and the creation of transnational ethnic worlds (1999) (394)
Debating cultural hybridity : multi-cultural identities and the politics of anti-racism (2000) (293)
The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis (2002) (289)
The place which is diaspora: Citizenship, religion and gender in the making of chaordic transnationalism (2002) (261)
The politics of multiculturalism in the new Europe : racism, identity, and community (1997) (239)
Theorising Complex Diasporas: Purity and Hybridity in the South Asian Public Sphere in Britain (2004) (181)
Debating Cultural Hybridity (1997) (168)
Veiled Interventions in Pure Space Honour, Shame and Embodied Struggles among Muslims in Britain and France (2007) (130)
Divided Loyalties, Empowered Citizenship? Muslims in Britain (2000) (128)
Renewing an Industrial Past: British Pakistani Entrepreneurship in Manchester (1994) (128)
Introduction: The Materiality of Diaspora—Between Aesthetic and "Real" Politics (2011) (111)
The limits of cultural hybridity: on ritual monsters, poetic licence and contested postcolonial purifications (2001) (108)
Stamping the Earth with the Name of Allah: Zikr and the Sacralizing of Space among British Muslims (1996) (104)
What Colour ‘Success’? Distorting Value in Studies of Ethnic Entrepreneurship (1999) (99)
Vernacular Cosmopolitanism (2006) (99)
Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult (2004) (98)
Islamophobia: Incitement to religious hatred – legislating for a new fear? (2005) (98)
Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults (2002) (97)
Veiled Interventions in Pure Space (2007) (93)
The Translocation of Culture: ‘Community Cohesion’ and the Force of Multiculturalism in History1 (2005) (90)
Imagined diasporas among Manchester Muslims : the public performance of Pakistani transnational identity politics (2002) (85)
Metaphors of Spatiality and Networks in the Plural City: A Critique of the Ethnic Enclave Economy Debate (2001) (73)
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives (2008) (72)
Bootstrap capitalism and the culture industries: a critique of invidious comparisons in the study of ethnic entrepreneurship (2001) (68)
Introduction: Towards a New Cosmopolitan Anthropology (2007) (65)
The Migration Process (1990) (65)
Everyday multiculturalism: Theorising the difference between ‘intersectionality’ and ‘multiple identities’ (2013) (65)
Understanding Vernacular Cosmopolitanism (2006) (63)
Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam (1999) (57)
Revisiting the UK Muslim diasporic public sphere at a time of terror: from local (benign) invisible spaces to seditious conspiratorial spaces and the ‘failure of multiculturalism’ discourse (2009) (52)
Folk devils and racist imaginaries in a global prism: Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the twenty-first century (2013) (49)
The Predicament of Diaspora and Millennial Islam (2004) (48)
Black and Ethnic Leaderships in Britain: The Cultural Dimensions of Political Action (1991) (44)
'Our blood is green': cricket, identity and social empowerment among British Pakistanis. (1996) (43)
Fun Spaces (1996) (42)
The fiction of unity in ethnic politics (1991) (39)
ECONOMIC RATIONALITY AND HIERARCHICAL GIFT ECONOMIES: VALUE AND RANKING AMONG BRITISH PAKISTANIS (1990) (36)
The Political Aesthetics of Global Protest: The Arab Spring and Beyond (2014) (36)
Diasporic Encounters, Sacred Journeys: Ritual, Normativity and the Religious Imagination Among International Asian Migrant Women (2010) (35)
Avoiding the ghetto: Pakistani migrants and settlement shifts in Manchester (1979) (31)
Religious Identity (2010) (31)
From rags to riches: Manchester Pakistanis in the textile trade (1980) (30)
The Virgin and the Clown Ritual Elaboration in Pakistani Migrants' Weddings (1986) (30)
Diasporic political imaginaries : A sphere of freedom or a sphere of illusions? (1997) (30)
Multiculturalism from Above and Below: Analysing a Political Discourse (2012) (29)
Honor, shame and the politics of sexual embodiment among South Asian Muslims in Britain and beyond: An analysis of debates in the public sphere 1 (2005) (28)
the making of Muslim dissent: hybridized discourses, lay preachers, and radical rhetoric among British Pakistanis (1996) (26)
Exoticising Citizenship: Anthropology And The New Citizenship Debate (1998) (25)
The Aesthetics of Diaspora: Ownership and Appropriation (2013) (25)
The Moral Economy of the African Diaspora: Citizenship, Networking and Permeable Ethnicity (2010) (24)
The Making of an African Working Class: Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana (2014) (22)
Allegories of Sacred Imperfection: Magic, Hermeneutics, and Passion in The Satanic Verses (1996) (22)
The Translocation of Culture: Migration, Community, and the Force of Multiculturalism in History (2005) (20)
The dialectics of urban cosmopolitanism: between tolerance and intolerance in cities of strangers (2015) (18)
THE EMBODIMENT OF CHARISMA (2002) (17)
LANGAR : Pilgrimage, sacred exchange and perpetual sacrifice in a Sufi saint’s lodge (2002) (16)
Multiculturalism and minority religions in Britain. Krishna consciousness, religious freedom and the politics of location. By Malory Nye. Richmond: Curzon Press. 2001. xii + 331 pp. Hb.: $75.00. ISBN 0 700 71392 1. (2002) (15)
Reproducing the multicultural nation (2002) (15)
The organization of giving and ethnic elites: Voluntary associations amongst Manchester Pakistanis* (1985) (14)
Political Motherhood and the Feminisation of Citizenship : Women ' s Activisms and the Transformation of the Public Sphere Pnina Werbner (2011) (14)
Anthropology and the new ethical cosmopolitanism (2012) (14)
Beyond division: Women, pilgrimage and nation building in South Asian Sufism (2010) (14)
The Ranking of Brotherhoods: The Dialectics of Muslim Caste among Overseas Pakistanis (1989) (13)
Mothers and Daughters in Historical Perspective: Home, Identity and Double Consciousness in British Pakistanis' Migration and Return (2013) (13)
Notes from a Small Place (2010) (13)
Migration and Transnational Studies (2013) (13)
“The Duty to Act Fairly”: Ethics, Legal Anthropology, and Labor Justice in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana (2014) (12)
Between Islamic piety, agency and ethical leadership: paradoxes of self-transformation (2018) (12)
Citizenship: Pushing the Boundaries (1997) (12)
Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu (2018) (12)
The Sikh Diaspora: Migration and the Experience beyond Punjab. N. GERALD BARRIER and VERNE A. DUSENBERY (1993) (11)
The Enigma of Christmas: Symbolic Violence, Compliant Subjects and the Flow of English Kinship (1997) (11)
Manchester Pakistanis: Life styles, ritual and the making of social distinctions (1981) (11)
Many Gateways to the Gateway City: Elites, Class and Policy Networking in the London African Diaspora (2010) (10)
Who Sets the Terms of the Debate? (2000) (10)
Shattered bridges: The dialectics of progress and alienation among British Muslims (1991) (9)
Sacred Journeys, Diasporic Lives : Sociality and the Religious Imagination among Filipinos in the Middle East (2010) (9)
Economy and Culture in Pakistan (1991) (9)
Cosmopolitanism: Cosmopolitan Cities and the Dialectics of Living Together with Difference (2014) (9)
The Cosmopolitan Encounter : Social Anthropology and the Kindness of Strangers 1 (2007) (9)
The hidden lion: Tswapong girls’ puberty rituals and the problem of history (2009) (9)
Displaced Enemies, Displaced Memories: Diaspora Memorial Politics of Partition and the Holocaust (2009) (9)
The Political Aesthetics of Global Protest (2014) (9)
Paradoxes of Postcolonial Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in South Asia and the Diaspora (2011) (9)
Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of subaltern and elite Batswana women (2009) (7)
Vernacular Cosmopolitanism as an Ethical Disposition Sufi Networks, Hospitality, and Translocal Inclusivity (2016) (7)
Factionalism and Violence in British Pakistani Communal Politics (1991) (7)
Commentary: Urban friendship: Towards an alternative anthropological genealogy (2018) (7)
Intimate Disciples in the Modern World: The Creation of Translocal Amity Among South Asian Sufis in Britain (2007) (7)
Powerful knowledge in a global Sufi cult: Reflections on the poetics of travelling theories (1995) (7)
Barefoot in Britain: Anthropological research on Asian immigrants (1987) (6)
Debating self, identity, and culture in anthropology. Commentaries. Author's reply (1999) (6)
The Boundaries of Diaspora: A Critical Response to Brubaker (2015) (6)
Gendering ‘Everyday Islam’: an introduction (2018) (5)
Seekers on the path: Different ways of being a Sufi in Britain (2006) (5)
Struggles among Muslims in Britain and France Veiled Interventions in Pure Space : Honour, Shame and Embodied (2011) (5)
"Sealing" the Koran (1988) (5)
Between Ethnography and Hagiography: Allegorical Truths and Representational Dilemmas in Narratives of South Asian Muslim Saints (2016) (5)
Appropriating Social Citizenship: Women's Labour, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana (2010) (5)
Political prayer and the dignity of labour: Botswana's workers' movement (2016) (4)
De-orientalising Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Local Cosmopolitan Ethics (2018) (4)
South Asian Entrepreneurship in Britain: A Critique of the Ethnic Enclave Economy Debate (2007) (4)
A Case of Insult (2019) (4)
Critique or caricature? A response to Wilcken and Gell (1995) (4)
Book reviews: Tournaments of Power: Honour and Revenge in the Contemporary World (2005) (4)
Islamic Reform in South Asia: Reform Sufism in South Asia (2013) (3)
The abstraction of love: personal emotion and mystical spirituality in the life narrative of a Sufi devotee (2017) (3)
Migration and Culture (2012) (3)
A Case of Inheritance: from Citizens' Forum to Magisterial Justice in Botswana's Customary Courts (2018) (3)
Cultural Research and Refugee Studies: New Knowledge, Methodologies, and Practical Implications; A Panel Commentary (2004) (3)
Introduction: The Materiality of Diaspora—Between Aesthetic and “Real” Politics (2000) (3)
Working-class cosmopolitans and diaspora (2018) (3)
Pakistani Migration and Diaspora Religious Politics in a Global Age (2004) (3)
Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women (2011) (2)
Barefoot in Britain – yet again: On multiple identities, intersection(ality) and marginality (2017) (2)
Aesthetics of Diaspora (2012) (2)
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Gendered Entrepreneurship and British South Asian Women in the Culture Industries (2009) (2)
A case of inheritance: from citizens’ forum to magisterial justice in Botswana’s customary courts (2020) (2)
The Cosmopolitan Encounter: Social Anthropology and the Kindness of Strangers 1 (2020) (2)
Religion, Politics and Islam in the South Asian Diaspora (2013) (2)
The Politics of Infiltration: An anthropological case study of factionalism and party politics in the manual workers union of Botswana (2010) (2)
Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North‐West Frontier by Magnus Marsden (2010) (2)
Divorce as Process, Botswana Style (2018) (2)
Visibly Muslim: Fashion, Politics, Faith – By Emma Tarlo (2011) (2)
Book Reviews: The Transnational Villagers (2004) (1)
The Anthropology of Religious Charisma: Ecstasies and Institutions Charles Lindholm (ed.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, £59.50, 248pp. (2015) (1)
“Pilgrims of Love” Sufism in a Global World (2005) (1)
Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change (1997) (1)
7 The Place ( s ) of Transgressive Sexuality in South Asia : From Ritual to Popular Culture (2010) (1)
The Aesthetics of Diaspora: Sensual Milieus and Literary Worlds 1 (2020) (1)
7 The Place ( s ) of Transgressive Sexuality in South Asia : From Ritual to Popular Culture (2010) (1)
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism (2020) (1)
Migration, Diaspora, and Religious Pilgrimage in Comparative Perspective: Sacred Geographies and Ethical Landscapes (2016) (1)
Sufi Regional Cults in South Asia and Indonesia: Towards a Comparative Analysis (2007) (1)
Adultery Redefined: Changing Decisions of Equity in Customary Law as “Living Law” in Botswana (2020) (1)
Giving to God: The ‘Naturalisation’ of Ritual (2020) (0)
Charisma’s Reach: Spiritual Travel and Material Flows in a Sufi Saint’s Wilayat (2020) (0)
Book Review: Visibly Muslim: Fashion, Politics, Faith (2011) (0)
Introduction: Towards a New Cosmopolitan Anthropology 1 (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
Stadler, Nurit. Voices of the ritual: devotion to female saints and shrines in the Holy Land. 216 pp., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2020. £64.00 (cloth) (2022) (0)
Enigmas of a Pakistani Warrior Saint: Interrogating Media Conspiracies in an Age of Terror (2013) (0)
Marriage, Exchange and the Reproduction of Inequality (2020) (0)
Diasporic Muslims (2019) (0)
Principles of interior renovation: The role of the interior designer (1998) (0)
Intersections: Between Khatam Qur’ans and Slametans: Gender and Class in South Asian and Indonesian Interdomestic Rituals (2019) (0)
Next year I will know more: literacy and identity among young orthodox women in Israel: by Tamar El-Or, translated from Hebrew by Haim Watzman, 352 pages, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2002. UK £30.50 hardback (2003) (0)
Globalising the Asian Muslim Umma (2014) (0)
Review of Islam and Feminisms: An Iranian Case-Study (2000) (0)
Colour and other factors (1998) (0)
Marriage, Customs and Contestation in South Africa (2017) (0)
A case of inheritance (2021) (0)
Comment on P. Werbner. Notes from a small place: anthropological blues in the face of global terror (2010) (0)
Zenana: Everyday Practice in a Karachi Apartment Building by Laura A. Ring (2008) (0)
Landscape, gardens and the space between the buildings (1998) (0)
Interpretive communities: radicals, reformers, and the politicisation of culture (1991) (0)
Departmental components of the average hospital: From reception to chapels (1998) (0)
Globalising the Asian Muslim Umma: alternating movements East–West of spirituality, reform and militant jihad (2014) (0)
Chapter 1. Sufi Regional Cults in South Asia and Indonesia: Towards a Comparative Analysis (2008) (0)
The Obama Effect: Confronting the Political and the Cosmopolitics of the Real (2012) (0)
The Organisation of Giving and Immigrant Elites (2020) (0)
The abstraction of love (2019) (0)
Between khatm-e qur’ans and slametans: Gender and class in South Asian and Indonesian interdomestic rituals (2020) (0)
1. The Place Which Is Diaspora: Citizenship, Religion, and Gender in the Making of Chaordic Transnationalism (2004) (0)
Chains of Entrepreneurs: The Production of an Enterprise Culture (2020) (0)
The Translocation of Culture: Migration, Community, and the Force of Multiculturalism in Indo-Pakistan History (2007) (0)
Inge, Anabel. The making of a Salafi Muslim woman: paths to conversion. xiv, 303 pp., tables, illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2017. £26.99 (cloth) (2019) (0)
Book Review: The Anthropology of Religious Charisma: Ecstasies and Institutions (2015) (0)
Maqsood, Ammara. The new Pakistani middle class. ix, 194 pp., illus., bibliogr. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2017. £37.95 (cloth) (2019) (0)
Circles of Trust: From Commodities to Gifts (2020) (0)
Vernacular Cosmopolitanism as an Ethical Disposition: Sufi Networks, Hospitality, and Translocal Inclusivity (2017) (0)
‘Lifestyle’ British Migrants to South Africa (2017) (0)
Ritual, Religion and Aesthetics in the Pakistani and South Asian Diaspora (2013) (0)
In this Issue (2011) (0)
Coe, Cati. The scattered family: parenting, African migrants, and global inequality. viii, 244 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2013. £19.50 (paper) (2015) (0)
An International Diaspora in Global Perspective South Asian Communities Overseas, 26-28 March, Oxford (1987) (0)
Migrants, Work, and the Roots of Impermanence on the Zimbabwe–South Africa Border (2018) (0)
From Commodities to Gifts: Pakistani Migrant Workers in Manchester (2020) (0)
The state and the paradox of customary law in Africa (2020) (0)
Trading Worlds: Afghan Merchants Across Modern Frontiers By Magnus Marsden (2018) (0)
Circles of Trust: Multiple Domains of Exchange (2020) (0)
Divided Loyalties , Empowered Citizenship ? Muslims in Britain PNINA WERBNER (2002) (0)
Divided Loyalties , Empowered Citizenship ? Muslims in Britain PNINA WERBNER (2002) (0)
African Customary Justice (2021) (0)
A moral economy of crime and the proportionality of punishment (2021) (0)
Circles of Trust: Women, and the Control of Ceremonial Exchange (2020) (0)
Book Review: Islam and Feminisms: An Iranian Case-Study (2000) (0)
Professional appointments: The ‘design team’ (1998) (0)
Frank J. Korom, Hosay Trinidad: Muharram Performances in an Indo‐Caribbean Diaspora. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. viii+305 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). (2007) (0)
Moral communities: autonomy and internal colonialism (1991) (0)
A Special Thanks to Reviewers (1992) (0)
Interior features: From floors to furniture (1998) (0)
The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism (2011) (0)
Imagined communities: processes of associational efflorescence (1991) (0)
The emergence of a community of suffering (1991) (0)
Grillo, Ralph. Muslim families, politics and the law: a legal industry in multicultural Britain. xvi, 337 pp., figs, tables, bibliogr. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015. £78.99 (cloth) (2017) (0)
Intersectionality and situationalism (2018) (0)
The oracular court of Sedimo vs. the customary court (2021) (0)
Rituals of Birth, Circumcision, Marriage and Death among Muslims in the Netherlands By Nathal M. Dessing (Leuven: Peeters, 2001). 211 pp. Price PB €28.00. ISBN 9–042–91059–3 (2006) (0)
The Obama Effect (2012) (0)
Processes of Community Formation (1992) (0)
Hill, Joseph. Wrapping authority: women Islamic leaders in a Sufi movement in Dakar, Senegal. 320 pp., bibliogr. Toronto: Univ. Press, 2018. £29.99 (paper) (2021) (0)
Cosmopolitanism, Globalisation and Diaspora 1 (2020) (0)
AMIDST THE UPROAR OF MODERNITY : The Ritual of Dhikr and its Meanings among Members of Naqshbandy Sufi Order in Western Europe (2015) (0)
Legal mobilisation, legal scepticism and the limits of ‘lawfare’: between law and politics in union activism in Botswana (2021) (0)
Howe, Justine. Suburban Islam. xi, 301 pp., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2018. £59.00 (cloth) (2020) (0)
Between Ontological Transformation and the Imagination of Tradition: Girls’ Puberty Rituals in Twenty-first Century Botswana (2014) (0)
Transnationalism and Regional Cults: The Dialectics of Sufism in a Plurivocal Muslim World (2014) (0)
Gendering "Everyday Islam" (2018) (0)
Arts and decoration: From high art to humble memorabilia (1998) (0)
The human factor (1998) (0)
What's in a name? (2021) (0)
Book reviews (2003) (0)
Hoque, Ashraf. Being young, male and Muslim in Luton. viii, 118 pp., bibliogr. London: UCL Press, 2019. £15.00 (paper) (2019) (0)
Chains of Migrants: Culture, Value and the Housing Market (2020) (0)
For Sri Lanka Tamils, the transmission of competence in religious practice to children was – like language learning – imbued with the meaning of survival of the Tamil ethno-nation (2022) (0)
South African Jews in Israel (2017) (0)
The legacy and appearance of hospital buildings (1998) (0)
Oonk, Gijsbert. Settled strangers: Asian business elites in East Africa (1800-2000). xix, 270 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. London: Sage Publications, 2013. £47.00 (cloth) (2018) (0)
Wedding Rituals and the Symbolic Exchange Of Substance (2020) (0)
Special thanks to reviewers (2018) (0)
Adultery redefined (2021) (0)

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