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1. Sensing Hinduism: Lucian-Indian Funeral 'Feast' as Glocalized Ritual1

Author

Sabita Manian and Brad Bullock

Subjects
globalization, glocalization, glocal ethnography, Caribbean, St. Lucia, Indo-Caribbean, Hindu, funeral, Religions. Mythology. Rationalism, BL1-2790
Abstract

Migrant narratives of Indo-Caribbean religious practices in the smaller island states of the Caribbean are rare, and that Diaspora’s funerary traditions are even less explored. This scholarly lacuna is addressed here by using data from ethnographic research conducted in St. Lucia to examine the funerary ritual of a Lucian-Indian “feast” through the multidisciplinary lens of glocalization. Specifically, we investigate the following: (a) ways that the diasporic identity of Lucian-Indians has been adapted and re-configured within a local-global nexus; (b) the extent to which there has been a local construction of a distinct socio-spatial identity among Lucian-Indians, one retaining “Hinduness” even as they assimilated into the larger St. Lucian society; and (c) whether glocal characteristics can be identified in the performance of a particular funeral feast. Following Roudometof, we posit that many aspects of a Lucian-Indian ethno-religious funerary ritual demonstrate indigenized and transnational glocalization.

Published
2016
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2. Indo-Caribbean diaspora, foreign policy, and iterations of Hindu identity

Author

Sabita Manian and Brad Bullock

Subjects
Cultural Studies, Hinduism, Sociology and Political Science, 05 social sciences, Ethnic group, Identity (social science), Vernacular, Hindutva, 0506 political science, Diaspora, Foreign policy, Anthropology, Political science, 0502 economics and business, 050602 political science & public administration, Transnationalism, Ethnology, 050207 economics
Abstract

This article examines the Indo-Caribbean diaspora's performance of vernacular representations of Hinduism and ethnic identity, as influenced by a global pan-Hindu agenda of India's current national...

Published
2020

3. Blood, Sex, and Power: A Learning Community

Author

Sabita Manian and Nichole Sanders

Subjects
Gender Studies, Power (social and political), History, Learning community, Psychology, Developmental psychology
Published
2005

4. Sex Trafficking : A Global Perspective

Author

Kimberly A. McCabe, Sabita Manian, Kimberly A. McCabe, and Sabita Manian

Subjects
Prostitution, Human trafficking
Abstract

Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data. Victims of sex trafficking may be forced into pornography, prostitution for the military or militia, spousal prostitution, and prostitution for the sex-tourism industry. In response to the problem of sex trafficking, many nations have either misunderstood the definition or failed to comprehend the magnitude that have occurs within their borders. The United Nations has defined'human trafficking'as'the recruitment, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by threat or use of force.'Similarly, the U.S. State Department's Trafficking Victims Protection Act 2000 describes severe forms of trafficking as: (a) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age; or (b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. In Sex Trafficking: A Global Perspective, sex trafficking is discussed in terms of its multiple purposes and its victims. The essays provide information to build upon the limited knowledge-base on the subject of sex trafficking and the legislative responses to human trafficking by the various highlighted countries. This collection is unique because it serves the needs of those studying human trafficking from a global perspective by targeting the issue within every geographic region, it provides a general profile of geographic regions in terms of demographic characteristics and political conditions that may support the growth of sex trafficking, and it is written on a basic information-supply-level to provide readers with a foundation on human trafficking throughout the world.

Published
2010

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