At home in Karachi: Quasi-domesticity as a way to know the city

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-80

  Verkaaik, Oskar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Migration; Postcolonial cities; Slums; State violence; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 62849084109     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: 14603721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X08101027     Document Type: Article

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