Abstract
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Diasporic Imagination 1. A Sikh Diaspora? Contested Identities and Constructed Realities 2. Bhakti and Postcolonial Politics: Hindu Missions to Fiji 3. Projecting Identities: Empire and Indentured Labor Migration from India to Trinidad and British Guiana, 1836-1885 4. Homeland, Motherland: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Ideologies of Place among Muslims in Trinidad 5. Hindus in Trinidad and Britain: Ethnic Religion, Reification, and the Politics of Public Space 6. New York City's Muslim World Day Parade 7. Indian Immigrants in Queens, New York City: Patterns of Spatial Concentration and Distribution, 1965-1990 8. Gendering Diaspora: Space, Politics, and South Asian Masculinities in Britain. 197 9. New Cultural Forms and Transnational South Asian Women: Culture, Class, and Consumption among British Asian Women in the Diaspora Contributors Index
Highlights
BOOK REVIEWS wing have deliberately set out to create an elaborate, fatuous enchantment of glossy credulity, on which the whole system runs
In the introduction a useful review of relevant literature on the ethnographic area and Indonesian sailing is followed by a historical outline of the Butonese maritime tradition
The two first chapters concentrate on village layout, history and prahu economy
Summary
BOOK REVIEWS wing have deliberately set out to create an elaborate, fatuous enchantment of glossy credulity, on which the whole system runs. This book could be decidedly shorter; it would be better without recommending such inappropriate neologisms as 'appropriationism', without at least three incomprehensible quotations, and without some English infelicities of its own brewing. It is excellent anthropology; it marries interesting ideas and good stories, skilfully, not too pretentiously, in a serious, unquestioned drive for 'truth'. We are all (who are the exceptions?) out of our depth on 'rationality'
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