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Vartan bhanji-exchange practices and social (im-)mobility: Exploring the coping strategies of low-income households of different biraderis in rural Punjab

dc.contributor.authorNasir, Aftab
dc.contributor.authorMielke, Katja
dc.contributor.editorBaldauf, Ingeborg
dc.contributor.editorConermann, Stephan
dc.contributor.editorKreutzmann, Hermann
dc.contributor.editorNadjmabadi, Shahnaz
dc.contributor.editorReetz, Dietrich
dc.contributor.editorSchetter, Conrad
dc.contributor.editorSökefeld, Martin
dc.contributor.editorBech Hansen, Claus Erik
dc.contributor.editorHornidge, Anna-Katharina
dc.contributor.editorMielke, Katja
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-06T12:35:07Z
dc.date.available2016-10-06T12:35:07Z
dc.date.issued07.2015
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/164
dc.description.abstractThis paper assesses whether vartan bhanji exchange practices are a boon or a burden, an enabling or disabling factor, a pass or an impasse for social mobility of the poor households of biraderis living in rural areas of Pakistan. Vartan bhanji is an umbrella term that comprises highly obligatory, unfailingly regular and reciprocal social exchange practices in the forms of gifts that are performed over various life-cycle occasions, such as marriage, death, birth, and circumcision ceremonies among biraderi members. Biraderi groups can be conceptualized as a figuration of interdependence. The results of the current study establish that the poor households perceive vartan bhanji more as a necessary evil; a system that they cannot go without, but also the one that they cannot afford to live without either. Even though this very institution restricts their movement in society in subtle ways, it also provides them identity, support, and protection that is essentially needed for their survival and mobility within their social networks. This paper shows that the social mobility of an individual is rather a function of and is restricted to his/her positionality within a biraderi. The limits of one’s exchanges, via vartan bhanji, mark the limit of one’s social (im-)mobility in society as well.en
dc.format.extent31
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCrossroads Asia Working Paper Series ; 29
dc.rightsIn Copyright
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dc.subjectPunjab
dc.subjectbiraderi
dc.subjectvartan bhanji
dc.subjectsocial exchange practices
dc.subjectfiguration
dc.subjectpositionality
dc.subjectsocial mobility
dc.subjectimmobility
dc.subjectPakistan
dc.subject.ddc300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
dc.titleVartan bhanji-exchange practices and social (im-)mobility: Exploring the coping strategies of low-income households of different biraderis in rural Punjab
dc.typeArbeitspapier
dc.publisher.nameCompetence Network Crossroads Asia: Conflict – Migration – Development
dc.publisher.locationBonn
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.relation.eissn2192-6034
dc.relation.urlhttp://crossroads-asia.de/veroeffentlichungen/working-papers.html
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