Mauritius
Post-Colonialism: The So-Called Malaise Creole in Mauritius
By: SYLVIE MAURER – Mauritius is a former French and British colony in the Indian Ocean. Now, this island has become a multicultural and multi-ethnic society due to several waves of immigration from Europe, Africa and Asia, all through the past three centuries. Each wave of immigration brought in new people along with their cultures,…
Mauritius: interethnic relations through rice and rum
By: SYLVIE MAURER – According to Aristotle, Man is by nature a social being. Undeniably, humans have evolved towards a social and cultural behaviour, thus codifying their eating habits; even though human beings have a vital need to eat and drink, as it is the case for animals. Humanity has therefore, developed a form of…
Former British Colony. Mauritians in the Face of Globalisation
By: SYLVIE MAURER – Mauritius is a former French and British colony in the Indian Ocean. Now, this island country has become a multicultural and multiethnic society due to several waves of immigration from Europe, Africa and Asia, all through the past three centuries. Each wave of immigration brought in new peoples along with their…
Comunità “confuse”. I Mauriziani a Palermo tra induismo e induismi
By: GIULIA VIANI – Considerata per molto tempo omogenea, la comunità mauriziana di religione induista di Palermo si è rivelata, alla luce di nuovi studi, un’entità composita. Tale eterogeneità riproduce la situazione dell’isola di Mauritius, conseguente alla sua vicenda coloniale, in cui si assiste alla frammentazione degli Indo-mauriziani in quattro gruppi che rivendicano una propria…
Genetic identity in Mauritius
By: SYLVIE MAURER – Mauritius is a small island of 1,865 square kilometres. This is equivalent to a third of the surface of Savoy. It is situated in the Indian Ocean at 20° south of the equator, on the east of Madagascar. Mauritius is a land without any evidence of human habitation until the seventeenth…