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Shiva's Other Children
David J. Mearns
其他書名
Religion and Social Identity Amongst Overseas Indians
出版SAGE Publications, 1995-12-18
主題Religion / Hinduism / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / General
ISBN08039924919780803992498
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0EMqAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This pioneering study seeks to fill the gap in our knowledge concerning urban overseas populations in Asia who identify themselves as coming from the Indian subcontinent. Focusing on the people labelled Indian who have settled in the town of Melaka in Malaysia, Dr Mearns uses the anthropological ethnographic approach to examine theoretical issues in the study of urban processes and religious practice in a migrant community. He locates his discussion of the social, cultural and linguistic diversity of Malaysians of Indian origin in the context of the perceived need, in an ethnically plural polity such as Malaysia, to create a basis for collective identity and action.