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Melancholia of freedom

social life in an Indian township in South Africa

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Melancholia of freedom: social life in an Indian township in South Africa
2012, Princeton University Press
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Table of 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".

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.891/41068455
Library of Congress
DT2405.D889 E3735 2012, DT2405.D889E3735, DT2405.D886 H233 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25061507M
Internet Archive
melancholiaoffre0000hans
ISBN 13
9780691152950, 9780691152967
LCCN
2011041406, 2012526789
OCLC/WorldCat
756377642

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