Religion as a Social Adhesive in Colonial Mauritius

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Mauritius was a “terra incognita et nullius” for Europeans before the sixteenth century. With the arrival of the Dutch (1638–1710), French (1715–1810), and British (1810–1968) colonizers, and the bondsmen they brought, the island became a significant part of the global sugar production. The workforce was gathered from all around the Indian Ocean and beyond. Eventually, the island became home to many races, ethnicities, religions, and social classes. In the 1850s, the populations observed four major faiths with their denominations, and a local syncretic belief Longanis. The paper will present the role and effect of religions in the social life of the repressed in the colonial period in Mauritius.

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• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 32846