Melancholia of freedom : social life in an Indian township in South Africa /

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The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Temas:
East Indians > South Africa > Durban.
Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde) > Afrique du Sud > Durban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
East Indians.
Race relations.
Religion.
Social conditions.
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) > Race relations.
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) > Social conditions.
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) > Religion.
Durban (South Africa) > Race relations.
Durban (South Africa) > Social conditions.
Durban (South Africa) > Religion.
South Africa > Durban.
South Africa > Durban > Chatsworth.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa
  • Domesticity and cultural intimacy
  • Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition
  • Autonomy, freedom, and political speech
  • Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city
  • The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires
  • Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives
  • The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief
  • Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality."

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