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Perspectives of female researchers : interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Gujarati identities /
"This fascinating book presents a wide-ranging collection of interdisciplinary research on Gujarati identities in India and the diaspora. An international group of women researchers from different academic backgrounds has gathered a rich set of data that provide fresh insights and raise many se...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Logos Verlag Berlin,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; 1 Diaspora, Memory, and Culture: Reading Gendered Gujarati Identity in Mira Kamdar's Motiba's Tattoos; 2 In Search of the Feminine: Exploring Female Characters in Early Twentieth Century Gujarati Novels; 3 A History for Gujarat: The Imagining of a Region in Edalji Dosabhai's and Ichharam Desai's Narratives; 4 Raja Bhagvatsinh and Rani Nandkunvarba of Gondal: "Valiant Champions of Female Emancipation"; 5 Sanctuary for the Soul: The Centrality of the Jamatkhana in Religious Identity Formation
- 6 "Doing prayer we kept our culture": Hindu Sacred Rites among the Gujaratis in Britain and Italy7 Culture in Motion: Dance as an Embodied Practice of Cultural Transmission; 8 Heritage Language Maintenance: Second-Generation Gujaratis in London; 9 Diaspora, Remittances and Development: A Case Study of the Dharmaj Society of London; 10 Keeping it in the Family? Her- and His-Stories among Gujarati Business Communities in the Nineteenth Century Indian Ocean