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Little India [[electronic resource] ] : diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius / / Patrick Eisenlohr



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Autore: Eisenlohr Patrick <1967-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Little India [[electronic resource] ] : diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius / / Patrick Eisenlohr Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: University of California Press, : Berkeley, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (346 p.)
Disciplina: 306.44096982
Soggetto topico: Anthropological linguistics - Mauritius
Hindus - Mauritius - Ethnic identity
Hindu diaspora
Soggetto geografico: Mauritius Ethnic relations
Soggetto non controllato: ancestral languages
anthropology
cultural practices
diaspora communities
diaspora
ethnographers
ethnography
ethnolinguistics
ethnolinguists
generational
hindi
hindusim
historians
historical perspective
homeland
india
indian ancestry
language and culture
linguistic connection
linguistics
linguists
lingustic plurality
mauritius
nonfiction
politics
religious language use
religious practices
shared language
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Little India  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-93996-4
9786612358586
1-282-35858-8
1-4337-0000-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784417603321
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