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008 111003s2012 njuab b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780691152950 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780691152967 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aDT2405.D889$bE3735 2012
082 00 $a305.891/41068455$223
100 1 $aHansen, Thomas Blom,$d1958-
245 10 $aMelancholia of freedom :$bsocial life in an Indian township in South Africa /$cThomas Blom Hansen.
260 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2012.
300 $axv, 354 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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".
650 0 $aEast Indians$zSouth Africa$zDurban.
651 0 $aChatsworth (Durban, South Africa)$xRace relations.
651 0 $aChatsworth (Durban, South Africa)$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aChatsworth (Durban, South Africa)$xReligion.
651 0 $aDurban (South Africa)$xRace relations.
651 0 $aDurban (South Africa)$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aDurban (South Africa)$xReligion.