Gardner, K. (1993) Desh-Bidesh - Sylheti images of home and away. Man, 28 (1). pp. 1-15. ISSN 0025-1496. (doi:10.2307/2804433) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:22099)
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Abstract
In migrant villages in Sylhet, places, and the images with which they are associated, represent different and at times competing forms of power. While the 'homeland' refers to spirituality and religiosity, 'abroad' is linked to material bounty and economic transformation, and local desire has become centred on travel abroad as the only route to material prosperity. The 'imagined' foreign worlds of those who have never migrated can therefore be viewed as the ideological concomitant of international dependency, and their ambivalent relationship with the homeland, a key element in the cultural contradictions of migration.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.2307/2804433 |
Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation |
Depositing User: | M. Nasiriavanaki |
Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2009 19:54 UTC |
Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2023 11:31 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/22099 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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