Cage of freedom : Tamil identity and the ethnic fetish in Malaysia /
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Marginal existence and social distance: "worthless dregs in a prosperous society"
- The ritual expression of Tamil identity in Malaysia : a festival of power and penance
- Fetish, space, and displacement in Kuala Lumpur : Tamils and the ethnic uncanny
- Hindu ecumenical movements and "middleness" : familiarity and ambivalence in Tamil identity
- Making distinctions : "we had become the laughingstock of other races"
- Sacred Malaysia, Greater India.