Cage of freedom : Tamil identity and the ethnic fetish in Malaysia / Andrew C. Willford.
"Based on nearly three years of ethnographic fieldwork in the little-studied Malaysian Tamil community, this book captures the challenges and dilemmas facing an ethnic and religious minority in the context of state-driven ethnic and religious nationalism. A resurgence of Tamil Hindu religious p...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction
- Ch. 2. Marginal existence and social distance : "worthless dregs in a prosperous society"
- Ch. 3. The ritual expression of Tamil identity in Malaysia : a festival of power and penance
- Ch. 4. Fetish, space, and displacement in Kuala Lumpur : Tamils and the ethnic uncanny
- Ch. 5. Hindu ecumenical movements and "middleness" : familiarity and ambivalence in Tamil identity
- Ch. 6. Making distinctions : "we had become the laughingstock of other races"
- Ch. 7. Sacred Malaysia, greater India.