Fabrics of Indianness The Exchange and Consumption of Clothing in Transnational Guyanese Hindu Communities

Fabrics of Indianness The Exchange and Consumption of Clothing in Transnational Guyanese Hindu Communities / by Sinah Theres Kloß.

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 clothing, the book demonstrates that the practices...

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Main Author: Kloß, Sinah Theres (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnography.
Cultural studies.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Guyanese Hinduism and the Study of Clothing: An Introduction
  • Socio-historical Context and Religious Groups in Guyana
  • Guyanese Hindu Traditions
  • Guyanese Transnationalism and the Concept of Translocality
  • Methodology
  • The Study of Clothing and Dress
  • Clothing, Closeness, and Migration
  • Outline of the Book
  • Resemblance, Imitation, and Consumption
  • Intimacy, Touch, and Exchange
  • Chapter 2: Negotiating ‘Indianness’ Through Indian Wear
  • Defining ‘Indian Wear’
  • The Ambiguous ‘Long Skirt’
  • Dressing Up for Puja.-Indian Wear and Ethnic Identity
  • Indian Ethnic Identity and the African ‘Other’
  • Indian Revitalization
  • Nuh-propriate Clothes and the Influence of Bollywood Movies
  • Contested Indianness
  • The ‘Indian Indian’ as Indian ‘Other’
  • Indo-Caribbeanness
  • Mastering the Sari: Dress and the Performance of Indianness
  • Degrees of Indianness?
  • Chapter 3: Stitching Readymade Dhotis: The Social History of Indian Wear in Guyana
  • ‘Overseas Clothing’
  • Selfmade Clothes and Indian Wear
  • Branding ‘Foreign’ Status
  • Stitching Authority?
  • ‘Superior’ Dress, Conversion, and Social Upward Mobility
  • Dressing Respectably: Dress Codes and Draped Clothes
  • Adapting English Wear: White Dresses and Orhni
  • Hindu Male ‘Effeminacy’ and Indian Wear
  • Stitching Dhotis
  • Chapter 4: Uniform(ity) Through Color: The Invention of Madrassi Vestment
  • The ‘Invention’ of the Madras Tradition
  • Processes of Standardization
  • Creating Madras ‘Authenticity’
  • Creating the Garment
  • The ‘Invention’ of Vestment
  • Uniform(ity)
  • Contested Discipline
  • Unifying Color
  • The Stigma of Being Madrassi
  • Chapter 5: (Ex)Changing the Deity’s Clothes
  • “Cyan leff a God naked”: Dressing the Deity
  • Matching Murti Clothes
  • The Practice of Charhaway
  • “Give from your brows, your sweat”
  • The Joint Family as Contributor
  • Sending Ritual Contributions
  • Photographs as Substitutes
  • Sharing Mudda’s Saris
  • Barrel-sending in a Madrassi Community
  • Wearing Mudda’s Clothes
  • Chapter 6: Staying in Touch, Dwelling in Clothes: Barrels, Gift-Giving, and Migration
  • To ‘Send Back’ Gifts
  • Barrel-sending and the Exchange of Clothing
  • The Barrel as Joint Effort
  • Giving Used Clothes
  • Clothing as Dwelling Structure
  • Bodies and Clothing in Exchange
  • Contact and Touch‘Physical’ and ‘Spiritual’ Bodies
  • Throwing Spirits Pon Clothes
  • Energies and Substances
  • Used Clothing as Memory and Presence
  • Chapter 7: Touched Clothes and Thrifty Barrels
  • Giving as Consumption
  • Touched Clothing‘Nation’ and Caste Identities
  • New and Used, Clean and Polluted
  • Wearing Prasadam
  • Cleaning Bodies, Washing Clothes
  • Barrels and Thrift
  • Gifts of Used Clothing as Disposal?Sending Thrifty Barrels
  • In Guyana, “Things Finish So Fast”
  • Thrift and Indian Identity
  • ‘Recycling’ Used Clothes:Thrifty and Wasteful Disposal
  • Chapter 8: Conclusion. .

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