Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-
Melancholia of freedom social life in an Indian township in South Africa / [electronic resource] : Thomas Blom Hansen. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012. - xv, 354 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality".
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
East Indians--South Africa--Durban.
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa)--Race relations.
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa)--Social conditions.
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa)--Religion.
Durban (South Africa)--Race relations.
Durban (South Africa)--Social conditions.
Durban (South Africa)--Religion.
Electronic books.
DT2405.D889 / E3735 2012eb
305.891/41068455
Melancholia of freedom social life in an Indian township in South Africa / [electronic resource] : Thomas Blom Hansen. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012. - xv, 354 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality".
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
East Indians--South Africa--Durban.
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa)--Race relations.
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa)--Social conditions.
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa)--Religion.
Durban (South Africa)--Race relations.
Durban (South Africa)--Social conditions.
Durban (South Africa)--Religion.
Electronic books.
DT2405.D889 / E3735 2012eb
305.891/41068455