Aisha Khan

Callaloo Nation

Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity Among South Asians in Trinidad

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Latin America Otherwise
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333883
• ISBN-10: 0822333880
• Artikelnr.: 14451966

Autorenporträt

Aisha Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She is a coeditor of Women Anthropologists: A Biographical Dictionary.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Series ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. “This Rainbow Has Teeth” 1
2. A “Crazyquilt Society” 27
3. Locations and Dislocations 61
4. The Problem of Simi-Dimi 101
5. Carving Knowledge from Ways of Knowing 121
6. “No Bhakti, Only Gyan” 159
7. “You Get Honor for Your Knowledge” 185
8. Mixing Metaphors 221
Notes 233
Works Cited 241
Index 253