TY - JOUR
T1 - juthaa in Trinidad
T2 - food, pollution, and hierarchy in a Caribbean diaspora community
AU - KHAN, AISHA
PY - 1994/5
Y1 - 1994/5
N2 - Focusing on the Hindi term juthaa—food and drink that have become “polluted” by being partially consumed—this article explores pollution ideology and its implications for social relations and the construction of identity among Hindu and Muslim East Indians in Trinidad. It suggests that in this overseas community the salience of the concept of juthaa, though caste derived, is indicative of an egalitarian morality at work in concert with hierarchical principles. This, in turn, has implications for the way we understand cultural reproduction and change, ritual, and stratification among diaspora populations. [pollution ideology, social stratification, South Asian diaspora, transnational identities, Trinidad] 1994 American Anthropological Association
AB - Focusing on the Hindi term juthaa—food and drink that have become “polluted” by being partially consumed—this article explores pollution ideology and its implications for social relations and the construction of identity among Hindu and Muslim East Indians in Trinidad. It suggests that in this overseas community the salience of the concept of juthaa, though caste derived, is indicative of an egalitarian morality at work in concert with hierarchical principles. This, in turn, has implications for the way we understand cultural reproduction and change, ritual, and stratification among diaspora populations. [pollution ideology, social stratification, South Asian diaspora, transnational identities, Trinidad] 1994 American Anthropological Association
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U2 - 10.1525/ae.1994.21.2.02a00020
DO - 10.1525/ae.1994.21.2.02a00020
M3 - Article
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SN - 0094-0496
VL - 21
SP - 245
EP - 269
JO - American Ethnologist
JF - American Ethnologist
IS - 2
ER -