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Little India: diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius/ Patrick Eisenlohr

By: Eisenlohr, PatrickMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University Of California Press, 2006Description: xv,328p. ; 24cmISBN: 9780520248809Subject(s): Hindus -- Mauritius -- Ethnic identity | Hindu diaspora | Anthropological linguistics -- MauritiusDDC classification: 306.44096982

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	306.44096982 EIS/L (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P14290

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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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