03242nam 2200721Ia 450 991081655290332120200520144314.00-520-93996-497866123585861-282-35858-81-4337-0000-X10.1525/9780520939967(CKB)1000000000354348(EBL)280128(OCoLC)476023123(SSID)ssj0000193278(PQKBManifestationID)11182899(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193278(PQKBWorkID)10219219(PQKB)10460776(OCoLC)560208488(MdBmJHUP)muse30984(DE-B1597)519689(OCoLC)1110708205(DE-B1597)9780520939967(Au-PeEL)EBL280128(CaPaEBR)ebr10153065(CaONFJC)MIL235858(OCoLC)77836504(MiAaPQ)EBC280128(EXLCZ)99100000000035434820060922d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLittle India diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius /Patrick Eisenlohr1st ed.University of California Press Berkeleyc20061 online resource (346 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24879-1 0-520-24880-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 religious contexts. Eisenlohr emphasizes the variety of cultural practices that construct and transform boundaries in communities in diaspora and illustrates different modes of experiencing the temporal relationships between diaspora and homeland.Anthropological linguisticsMauritiusHindusMauritiusEthnic identityHindu diasporaMauritiusEthnic relationsAnthropological linguisticsHindusEthnic identity.Hindu diaspora.306.44096982Eisenlohr Patrick1967-1022171MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816552903321Little India4100533UNINA