Malaise Creole

Ethnic Identity in Mauritius

AvRosabelle Boswell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

Del i serien New Directions in Anthropology

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Beskrivning

How does one explain the poverty and marginalization of a group that lives in a remarkably successful economy and peaceful society? A native anthropologist, the author provides critical insight into the dynamics of contemporary Mauritian society. In her meticulously researched study of ethnic, gender and racial discrimination in Mauritius, she addresses debates carried out in many developing societies on subaltern identities, ethnicity, poverty and social injustice. The book therefore also offers important empirical material for scholars interested in the wider Indian Ocean region and beyond.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-08-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:472 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Directions in Anthropology
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781845450755

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Rosabelle Boswell received her doctorate from the Free University of Amsterdam and is conversant in French and the Indian Ocean Creole dialect. A Creole born in Mauritius and raised in Malawi (during the dictatorship of Kamuzu Banda), she emigrated to South Africa in 1990 where she is now teaching Anthropology at Rhodes University.

Recensioner i media

"... a major contribution to both the ethnography of Mauritius and to the anthropology of discursive identity formation." · Paula Heinonen, University of Oxford"Nobody has done this ethnography before... her material is rich and unique... [it will] be a standard reference in anthropological studies of the Indian Ocean island societies, but it will also be of interest to scholars and students looking at the Caribbean as well as hybridity in other settings." · Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsMapsAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1. Unravelling le malaise CréoleChapter 2. Anthropology at ‘Home’Chapter 3. Defining CreolesChapter 4. Dignity and Prestige in FlacqChapter 5. Re-viewing the Past in KarinaChapter 6. Imagining Homelands in Roche Bois and the River CampChapter 7. Negotiating Landscapes in Chamarel and Le MorneChapter 8. Shifting SelvesBibliographyIndex