Callaloo nation : metaphors of race and religious identity among South Asians in Trinidad / Aisha Khan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khan, Aisha, 1955-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Latin America otherwise.

Latin America otherwise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asians--Trinidad and Tobago--Ethnic identity.

South Asians.

South Asians--Trinidad and Tobago--Religion.

South Asians--Trinidad and Tobago--Social conditions.

Muslims--Trinidad and Tobago--Social conditions.

Muslims.

Hindus--Trinidad and Tobago--Social conditions.

Hindus.

Islam and culture--Trinidad and Tobago.

Islam and culture.

Hinduism and culture--Trinidad and Tobago.

Hinduism and culture.

Trinidad and Tobago--Religious life and customs.

Trinidad and Tobago.

Trinidad and Tobago--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Analyzes the relationship between conceptions of racial and ethnic identity and the ways social stratification and inequality are reproduced and experienced in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

Contents:

Introduction : "this rainbow has teeth"

A "crazy quilt society"

Locations and dislocations

The problem of "simi-dimi"

Carving knowledge from ways of knowing

"No bakhti, only gyan"

"You get honor for your knowledge"

Conclusion : mixing metaphors

Appendix : three generations of religious change.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-251) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

ISBN:

9780822386094

0822386097

OCLC:

220950751