Contesting ‘Gifts from Jesus’
Clothes are a means to demonstrate wealth, status, and socio-religious hegemony. Practices of consuming and exchanging clothing enhance or lower one’s status by displaying and creating taste and capital. In Guyana, many Hindus relate charitable clothing distributions exclusively to Christian mission...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Social sciences and missions
Year: 2017, Volume: 30, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 346-365 |
Further subjects: | B
Hinduism
Guyana
transnational migration
clothing
Christian mission
B Hindouisme Guyane migrations transnationales vêtements missions chrétiennes |
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