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Melancholia of freedom social life in an Indian township in South Africa
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Title
Melancholia of freedom [electronic resource] : social life in an Indian township in South Africa / Thomas Blom Hansen.
ISBN
9780691152950 (hardcover alk. paper)
9780691152967 (pbk. alk. paper)
9781400842612 (e-book)
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
xv, 354 p.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 01, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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".
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