Rewriting the past and reimagining the future: The social life of a Tamil heritage language industry

American Ethnologist

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 774-789

  Neela Das, Sonia ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Globalization; Heritage language industry; Montreal; Tamil diaspora; Temporality; Urban multilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155133429     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01336.x     Document Type: Article

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