Atmospheric resonance: sonic motion and the question of religious mediation
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 613-631, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Because of its material characteristics, the sonic poses a challenge to the influential paradigm of religion as mediation. This article makes a case for a neo‐phenomenological analytic of atmospheres in order to do justice to the sonic in anthropological approaches to religion.
Patrick Eisenlohr
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From connectors to extension particles, the meaning of sipa ki in Mauritian Creole
Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2021 The extension particles are not considered as discourse markers by all researchers mainly considering the grammatical function the connectors which they are based on can present. However, as for discourse markers which “desemantisation” has been revoked,
Shimeen-Khan Chady
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Operation Lal Dora: India's aborted military intervention in Mauritius [PDF]
, 2015 As India expands its strategic reach in the Indian Ocean, it will need friends that it can count on. The island state of Mauritius has long been one of India's closest allies in the region. This article discusses India's plans for a military intervention
Brewster, David, Rai, Ranjit
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The evolution of the (in)definite future markers POU and VA in 20th century Mauritian Creole
Études Créoles, 2022 Following a series of articles about the status of Mauritian’s future markers in the 1993 edition of Etudes Créoles (Baker 1993; Hazaël-Massieux 1993; Touchard & Véronique 1993) there has been little debate about the division of labour between POU and VA
Hannah Davidson
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The politics of punishment in colonial Mauritius, 1766-1887 [PDF]
, 2008 The history of imprisonment in British colonial Mauritius is intertwined with its political economy, most especially the relationship between metropolitan government and plantation owners.
Anderson Clare +7 more
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Translating the untranslatable: Khal Torabully’s poetics of Coolitude
Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies, 2023 In coining the term ‘Coolitude’ to re-imagine and re-vision the indenture experience, Khal Torabully has created a new identity and language, based on the strength and resiliency garnered through the rich intercultural exchanges among indentured workers.
Nancy Naomi Carlson
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Forced Displacement, Onward Migration and Reformulations of 'Home' by Chagossians in Crawley, UK [PDF]
, 2010 This article compares forced displacement and onward migration within the living memory of one community. The Chagos Islanders were forcibly uprooted from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean and moved to Mauritius and the Seychelles between 1965 ...
Jeffery, Laura
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Lieu de mémoire, lieu d’oubli, lieu de réparation?
Francosphères, 2021 The destruction of the vernacular case créole has emerged as a striking, recurrent theme in contemporary Mauritian cultural production, as well as a cause of much heated public debate.
Julia Waters
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Créoles et français : Quelques différences dans la valence verbale
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2015 In this contribution, I look at four valency patterns of Creole spoken in the Seychelles and Mauritius, which clearly differ from the corresponding French patterns.
Sibylle Kriegel
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Banaras in the Indian Ocean: Circulating, Connecting and Creolizing Island Stories [PDF]
, 2012 What links Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s 1788 novel about Isle de France, Paul et Virginie, with V.S. Naipaul’s 1972 piece, An overcrowded Barracoon? What is common to Joseph Conrad’s 1910 novella, A Smile of Fortune, and tourist brochures of La Grande ...
Ravi, Srilata
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