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Title:'Hierarchical Alterity is a Mere Illusion': Some Reflections on the Creative Power of Women's Expressive Traditions in the Portuguese-Speaking Hindu Diaspora
Author:Trovão-Bastos, Susana
Year:2005
Periodical:Lusotopie
Volume:12
Issue:1-2
Pages:109-123
Language:English
Geographic term:Mozambique
Subjects:minority groups
women migrants
Hinduism
ethnic identity
traditions
colonial period
Women's Issues
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Ethnic and Race Relations
Religion and Witchcraft
Cultural Roles
External link:https://doi.org/10.1163/17683084-0120102009
Abstract:Despite being dismissed by certain brahmanized sectors of the Hindu diaspora, the idioms through which Hindu women construct their own selves and the alternative conceptions of the social world that they transmit have contributed significantly to the success of their families in migratory contexts in terms of identity. Taking the Hindu diaspora within the Portuguese-speaking space as a case study, this article shows how the women's expressive traditions constituted a contra-ethnicizing logic which helped to consolidate the position of the ethnic minority of traders formed by the Hindu-Gujarati population settled in Mozambique during the colonial period. In the two main postcolonial migratory contexts, Portugal and England, these traditions continue to provide emerging generations with significant resources for the redefinition of relations between 'self' and 'other' and for the renegotiation of intra- or inter-ethnic power dynamics. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English, French and Portuguese. [Journal abstract]
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