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Autore |
Eisenlohr Patrick <1967-> |
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Titolo |
Little India : diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius / / Patrick Eisenlohr |
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University of California Press, : Berkeley, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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9786612358586 |
9780520939967 |
0520939964 |
9781282358584 |
1282358588 |
9781433700002 |
143370000X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (346 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Anthropological linguistics - Mauritius |
Hindus - Mauritius - Ethnic identity |
Hindu diaspora |
Mauritius Ethnic relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 mediated through the cultural phenomenon of Indian ancestral languages-principally Hindi, which is used primarily in |
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