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Little India [electronic resource] : diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius / Patrick Eisenlohr.

By: Eisenlohr, Patrick, 1967-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: University of California Press : Berkeley, c2006Description: xiv, 328 p.Subject(s): Anthropological linguistics -- Mauritius | Hindus -- Mauritius -- Ethnic identity | Hindu diaspora | Mauritius -- Ethnic relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.44096982 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Includes bibliographical references 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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.