TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eisenlohr,Patrick
TI  - Little India: diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius 
SN  - 9780520939967
AV  - P35.5.M4 
U1  - 306.44096982 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - University of California Press
PB  - Berkeley
KW  - Anthropological linguistics
KW  - Mauritius
KW  - Hindus
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Hindu diaspora
KW  - Ethnolinguistique
KW  - Île Maurice
KW  - Hindous
KW  - Identité ethnique
KW  - Pays étrangers
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - fast
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Relations interethniques
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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