ISBN:
9780520248809
,
0520248805
,
9780520939967
,
0520939964
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 328 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Little India
DDC:
306.44096982
Keywords:
Anthropological linguistics Mauritius
;
Hindus Ethnic identity
;
Mauritius
;
Hindu diaspora
;
Hindus Ethnic identity
;
Anthropological linguistics
;
Hindu diaspora
;
Hindus Ethnic identity
;
Anthropological linguistics
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
Anthropological linguistics
;
Ethnic relations
;
Hindu diaspora
;
Mauritius Ethnic relations
;
Mauritius Ethnic relations
;
Mauritius Ethnic relations
;
Mauritius
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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 experienc
Description / Table of Contents:
Creole island or little India? : the politics of language and diasporaAn 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-314) and index. - Description based on print version record
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