Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad

Aisha Khan

Published by Duke University Press 2004

Callaloo Nation

Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad

Aisha Khan
Edited by: Walter D. Mignolo , Irene Silverblatt and Sonia Saldívar-Hull

In the series Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822386094

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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

Reviews

“Callaloo Nation is a solid contribution to anthropological theory and Caribbean ethnography. In helping us to understand that group identity is in constant flux, Aisha Khan shows, far better than just about anybody else, what the term ‘essentialize’ really means.”—Sidney Mintz, author of Caribbean Transformations

“Aisha Khan is an exceptional ethnographer. Callaloo Nation brings to fruition her many years of ethnographic research focused on both Indo-Trinidadians and the social construction of their identities. There is nothing like this work in the literature on the Caribbean or on postcolonial societies in any region. It will be a shaping force in social science research on the Caribbean.”—Dan Segal, coauthor of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture: An Essay on the Narration of Social Realities

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
About the Series Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1 ‘‘This Rainbow Has Teeth’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 A ‘‘Crazyquilt Society’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3 Locations and Dislocations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4 The Problem of Simi-Dimi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
5 Carving Knowledge from Ways of Knowing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
6 ‘‘No Bhakti, Only Gyan’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
7 ‘‘You Get Honor for Your Knowledge’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
8 Mixing Metaphors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Other: 9 b&w photos, 2 maps

eBook

Published: October 11, 2004
ISBN: 9780822386094