Melancholia of Freedom : : Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa /

Melancholia of Freedom : : Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa / / Thomas Blom Hansen.

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The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Hansen, Thomas Blom,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 10 halftones. 2 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Ethnicity by Fiat: The Remaking of Indian Life in South Africa
  • Chapter 2. Domesticity and Cultural Intimacy
  • Chapter 3. Charous and Ravans: A Story of Mutual Nonrecognition
  • Chapter 4. Autonomy, Freedom, and Political Speech
  • Chapter 5. Movement, Sound, and Body in the Postapartheid City
  • Chapter 6. The Unwieldy Fetish
  • Chapter 7. Global Hindus and Pure Muslims
  • Chapter 8. The Saved and the Backsliders
  • Postscript: Melancholia in the Time of the "African Personality"
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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