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
Autor principal: Eisenlohr, Patrick, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of California Press : Berkeley, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Hindu diaspora
Ethnic relations
Anthropological linguistics
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Hindous > Pays etrangers.
Hindous > Identite ethnique > Île Maurice.
Ethnolinguistique > Île Maurice.
Hindu diaspora.
Hindus > Mauritius > Ethnic identity.
Anthropological linguistics > Mauritius.
Mauritius
Île Maurice > Relations interethniques.
Mauritius > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
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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