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Little India
Little India: diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius
Patrick Eisenlohr,
Publisher: University of California Press : Berkeley, c2006.
ISBN: 0520248805   DDC: 306.44096982   LCC: P35.5   Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)

Notes:

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.

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Dewey Class: 306.44096982 -- Culture & institutions
LCC Number: P35.5

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xv, 328 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition Info: (pbk. : alk. paper)

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•  College of William and Mary (last modified on 10/14/2009)
•  Washington Research Library Consortium (last modified on 06/28/2009)

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