This book engages with how the Siddis in Gujarat and the South African
Indians in South Africa perform different forms of creolized
socio-cultural practices in the contemporary era. Since the
precolonial times, India and South Africa have developed commercial
relations through sharing clothing materials, minerals, precious
stones, and spices. Besides exchanging physical objects, varieties of
cultures, traditions, and rituals were also exchanged between these
countries. With the emergence of colonization in both these countries
as Africans were brought to India as slaves and Indians were taken to
South Africa as indentured laborers, a lot of objects like musical
instruments, plant seeds, cooking utensils, and hand-woven clothes
were carried across the Indian Ocean as cultural memories. With the
passage of time, the cultural practices of the Indian Diaspora and
African Diaspora got intermixed with the native local cultures of
South Africa and India, respectively, and gave birth to porous, fluid,
multi-rooted, and creolized cultural practices. This book brings forth
some of the creolized culinary, spiritual, and musical practices of
these communities, and how these performances can expand the archives
of creolized cultural practices of Diaspora communities in the Indian
Ocean World.
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Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781839986918
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter