Little India : diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius /
Eisenlohr, Patrick, 1967-
Little India : diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius / Patrick Eisenlohr. - University of California Press : Berkeley, c2006. - 1 online resource (xv, 328 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-314) 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 experienc.
English.
9780520939967 ebook 0520939964 9786612358586 6612358580 1282358588 9781282358584
22573/cttt279w JSTOR
2021696606
Anthropological linguistics--Mauritius.
Hindus--Ethnic identity.--Mauritius
Hindu diaspora.
Ethnolinguistique--Île Maurice.
Hindous--Identité ethnique--Île Maurice.
Hindous--Pays étrangers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Sociolinguistics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Anthropological linguistics
Ethnic relations
Hindu diaspora
Mauritius--Ethnic relations.
Île Maurice--Relations interethniques.
Mauritius
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
P35.5.M4
306.44096982
Little India : diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius / Patrick Eisenlohr. - University of California Press : Berkeley, c2006. - 1 online resource (xv, 328 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-314) 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 experienc.
English.
9780520939967 ebook 0520939964 9786612358586 6612358580 1282358588 9781282358584
22573/cttt279w JSTOR
2021696606
Anthropological linguistics--Mauritius.
Hindus--Ethnic identity.--Mauritius
Hindu diaspora.
Ethnolinguistique--Île Maurice.
Hindous--Identité ethnique--Île Maurice.
Hindous--Pays étrangers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Sociolinguistics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Anthropological linguistics
Ethnic relations
Hindu diaspora
Mauritius--Ethnic relations.
Île Maurice--Relations interethniques.
Mauritius
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
P35.5.M4
306.44096982