Research Catalog

Title

The Sikh diaspora in Vancouver : three generations amid tradition, modernity, and multiculturalism / Kamala Elizabeth Nayar.

Author

Nayar, Kamala E. (Kamala Elizabeth), 1966-

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

xiii, 276 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Canadian Sikh have been great changes in their communities, which are primarily concentrated in larger urban centres, especially Vancouver and the British Columbia Lower Mainland. In The Sikh Diaspora in Vancouver, Kamala Elizabeth Nayar illustrates the transition of Sikh social culture as it moves from small Punjabi villages to a Canadian metropolis." "The result of an analysis of the beliefs and attitudes among three generations of the Sikh community, the book highlights differences and tensions with regard to familial relations, child rearing, and religion. In exploring these tensions, Nayar focuses particularly on the younger generation, and underlines the role of Sikh youth as a catalyst for change within the community. She also examines the Sikh community as it functions and interacts with mainstream Canadian society in the light of modernity and multiculturalism, exploring the change, or lack thereof, in attitudes about the functioning of the community, the role of multicultural organizations and the media, continuity in traditional customs, modifications in behaviour patterns, and changes in values."--Jacket.

Subject

• Sikhs > British Columbia > Vancouver > Social conditions
• Sikhs > Cultural assimilation > British Columbia > Vancouver
• Intergenerational relations > British Columbia > Vancouver
• Sikhs > British Columbia > Vancouver > Interviews
• Sikh diaspora
• Sikh Canadians > Cultural assimilation > British Columbia > Vancouver
• Sikh Canadians > British Columbia > Vancouver > Interviews
• Canadiens d'origine sikh > Acculturation > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver
• Canadiens d'origine sikh > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Indentité ethnique
• Canadiens d'origine sikh > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Entretiens
• Vancouver (B.C.) > Ethnic relations
• Vancouver (B.C.) > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Interviews

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From Punjabi villages to a Canadian metropolis -- Communication among three generations: reflections on orality, literacy, and analytics -- Family relations among three generations: duty, role playing, and independence, Part 1 -- Family relations among three generations: duty, role playing, and independence, Part 2 -- Religion among the three generations: oral transmission of customs, reading about the Sikh tradition, and inquiry into Sikhism -- Community honour among three generations: social controls, cultural preservation, and ethnic insulariyt, Part 1 -- Community honour among three generations: social control, cultural preservation, and ethnic insularity, Part 2 -- Conclusion: Canadian Sikhs amid modernity and multiculturalism.

ISBN

• 080208947X (acid-free paper)
• 0802086314 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005270108

OCLC

• 53036700
• SCSB-9959007

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library