Little India : diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius /

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Little India is a rich historical and ethnographic examination of a fascinating example of linguistic plurality on the island of Mauritius, where more than two-thirds of the population is of Indian ancestry. Patrick Eisenlohr's groundbreaking study focuses on the formation of diaspora as mediat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eisenlohr, Patrick, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of California Press : Berkeley, c2006.
Temas:
Anthropological linguistics > Mauritius.
Hindus > Mauritius > Ethnic identity.
Hindu diaspora.
Ethnolinguistique > Île Maurice.
Hindous > Identité ethnique > Île Maurice.
Hindous > Pays étrangers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Anthropological linguistics
Ethnic relations
Hindu diaspora
Mauritius > Ethnic relations.
Île Maurice > Relations interethniques.
Mauritius
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Creole island or little India? : the politics of language and diaspora
  • An Indo-Mauritian world : "ancestral culture," Hindus, and their others
  • Social semiotics of language : shifting registers, narrative, and performance
  • Colonial education, ethnolinguistic identifications, and the origins of ancestral languages
  • Performing purity : television and ethnolinguistic recognition
  • Calibrations of displacement : diasporization, ancestral language, and temporality.

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