Performing memories and weaving archives : creolized cultures across the Indian Ocean / Sayan Dey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dey, Sayan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Siddi (Indic people)--India--Gujarat.

Siddi (Indic people).

East Indians--South Africa.

East Indians.

India--Relations--South Africa.

India.

South Africa--Relations--India.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 92 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London, England : Anthem Press, 2024.

Summary:

This book engages with how the Siddis in Gujarat and the South African Indians in South Africa perform different forms of creolized socio-cultural practices in the contemporary era. Since the precolonial times, India and South Africa have developed commercial relations through sharing clothing materials, minerals, precious stones, and spices. Besides exchanging physical objects, varieties of cultures, traditions, and rituals were also exchanged between these countries. With the emergence of colonization in both these countries as Africans were brought to India as slaves and Indians were taken to South Africa as indentured laborers, a lot of objects like musical instruments, plant seeds, cooking utensils, and hand-woven clothes were carried across the Indian Ocean as cultural memories. With the passage of time, the cultural practices of the Indian Diaspora and African Diaspora got intermixed with the native local cultures of South Africa and India, respectively, and gave birth to porous, fluid, multi-rooted, and creolized cultural practices. This book brings forth some of the creolized culinary, spiritual, and musical practices of these communities, and how these performances can expand the archives of creolized cultural practices of Diaspora communities in the Indian Ocean World.

Contents:

Cover

Praise Page

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Nomoshkar-Sanibona-Vanakkam-Molweni-Hujambo...

2. Porosity: Reservations and Fluidities

3. Spiritual Memories

4. Musical and Dance Memories

5. Culinary Memories

6. Continuity: Weaving Archipelagoes of Resistance

Afterword

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Feb 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Dey, Sayan Performing Memories and Weaving Archives:

ISBN:

9781839986918

1839986913

OCLC:

1405943432