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Etnográfica
versión impresa ISSN 0873-6561
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PEREIRA, Cláudia; LOURENCO, Inês y CACHADO, Rita. Introduction: representations of India at home and abroad. Etnográfica [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.1, pp.99-106. ISSN 0873-6561.
This dossier makes an original contribution to the semantic analysis of the representations on India. It aims to broaden the academic debate on South Asian studies by focusing on the cultural practices of both Indians and migrants and on their representations of India, a much neglected subject in the literature. The five articles it comprises examine three dimensions of representations about India. One concerns the connection between tourism and religion, and the transformation of representations of Portuguese presence in Goa. Another dimension addresses the representations of the lifestyle migrants in India and the population in Portugal, notably regarding the consumption of an Indian and Bollywood lifestyle. A third dimension focuses on South Asian migrants in Portugal embeddedness, through economic processes. The main finding that brings these papers together is that the importance given by the different actors to the cultural representations about India is so strong that it defines decisions for their life experiences. These cultural representations are heterogeneous, circulating with divergent meanings in India and abroad, grounded on different images of past and present. The articles explore their production and uses in various settings.
Palabras clave : South Asian diaspora; cultural representations; tourism; Bollywood; ethnic clusters; lifestyle migration.