Little India : Diaspora, Time, and Ethnolinguistic Belonging in Hindu Mauritius /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of California Press :
Berkeley,
2006.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.