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- Title
Time in Flux: Daily and Weekly Rhythms in Rural Pakistan.
- Authors
MUGHAL, MUHAMMAD A. Z.
- Abstract
This paper aims to highlight that daily and weekly rhythms, being a part of the social organization of time, mediate people's responses to social change in rural Pakistan. Indigenous ways of measuring different stages of the day have recently been replaced by clock time as a consequence of industrialization and urbanization. Further, changing socioeconomic circumstances have given rise to a new temporal rhythm, which unfolds in daily time allocation for different activities. The debate regarding whether Sunday or Friday should be the weekend in Pakistan points to the contested notions of time that can be explained on the basis of temporal identity, religion, and urbanization. By using an ethnographic example, this study also discusses how daily and weekly rhythms are maintained in rural Pakistan through the socioeconomic realities of everyday life.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; RURAL population; SOCIAL structure; URBANIZATION; RURAL sociology; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Asian Ethnology, 2017, Vol 76, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1882-6865
- Publication type
Article