Little India
Subtitle: diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius
By: Patrick Eisenlohr
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780520248793; 9780520248809
Subjects: Anthropological linguistics -- Mauritius; Hindus -- Mauritius -- Ethnic identity; Hindu diaspora; Mauritius -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-314) and index
Table of contents: title: Creole island or little India? : the politics of language and diaspora; title: An Indo-Mauritian world : "ancestral culture," Hindus, and their others; title: Social semiotics of language : shifting registers, narrative, and performance; title: Colonial education, ethnolinguistic identifications, and the origins of ancestral languages; title: Performing purity : television and ethnolinguistic recognition; title: Calibrations of displacement : diasporization, ancestral language, and temporality