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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Main Author: Willford, Andrew C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.
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