Fabrics of Indianness The Exchange and Consumption of Clothing in Tr
This book describes how Guyanese Hindus recreate Indian ethnic identity in contemporary Guyana and examines how Hindu traditions have been transformed in this multi-religious and multi-ethnic society. By illustrating the exchange and consumption of clothi
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Sinah Theres Kloß
Fabrics of Indianness
Sinah Theres Kloß
Fabrics of Indianness The Exchange and Consumption of Clothing in Transnational Guyanese Hindu Communities
Sinah Theres Kloß University of Cologne Köln, Germany
ISBN 978-1-137-56540-2 ISBN 978-1-137-56541-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56541-9
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For my father Franz Kloß The soul is never born nor dies; nor does it become only after being born. For it is unborn, eternal, everlasting and primeval; even though the body is slain, the soul is not. … As a man shedding worn-out garments, takes other new ones, likewise the embodied soul, casting off worn-out bodies, enters into others which are new. (The Bhagavadgita: 17, 2:20 and 2:22)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I thank Christiane Brosius and Anne Brüske, without whom I could not have finished this project. I am indebted to their critical insight and expertise, their invaluable comments on draft chapters, their recommendations of literature, as well as their excellent supervision and support which nurtured this ethnography. I am grateful to the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University and the German Academic Exchange Service, who supported research for this book. I thank the members of the junior research group ‘From North America to the Caribbean and Back’ for their friendship, enthusiasm, and vivid discussions, which enriched this work: Wiebke Beushausen, Ana-Sofia Commichau, and Patrick Helber. For administrative support and the chance for publication, I thank Mireille Yanow and Milana Vernikova at Palgrave Macmillan, Parvathy Ramaswamy and Periyanayagam Leoselvakumar as well as an an
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