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Temporalities of Community: Ancestral Language, Pilgrimage, and Diasporic Belonging in Mauritius
Author(s) -
Eisenlohr Patrick
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of linguistic anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1548-1395
pISSN - 1055-1360
DOI - 10.1525/jlin.2004.14.1.81
Subject(s) - temporalities , temporality , pilgrimage , indexicality , hinduism , hindi , context (archaeology) , ideology , sociology , chronotope , diaspora , anthropology , history , caste , aesthetics , gender studies , linguistics , literature , politics , art , ancient history , archaeology , philosophy , epistemology , theology , political science , law
Temporal indexicality is deeply involved in the production of imagined communities. This article shows how the cultivation of Hindi as an “ancestral language” among Hindus in Mauritius mediates between two different modes of temporality while shaping diasporic identities. Diasporic ideologies of ancestral language are further shown to articulate with the creation of sacred geographies in the context of an annual Hindu pilgrimage.