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This text traces the history of Tamil migration, from the economic migrants of the 1960s onwards. The author draws unnerving parallels between the status of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka, as a persecuted minority waging a war of liberation, and the migrant community in Norway as a displaced, marginalized and excluded refugee community, with only tenuous links to the host country and a fierce but often contradictory attachment to revolutionary politics and to Tamil customs and rituals.

"The volume offers a valuable new addition to recent publications on material culture by introducing the concept of the imaginary as a framework for the study of objects...With a variety of case studies in different regional settings it deals with the 'enchantment of materiality' (Naguib in the volume), the meaningfulness of objects, their sensual and emotional capacities, and the negotiation of value in their representation or movement across cultural regimes." - Barbara Plankensteiner, Weltmuseum Wien

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have...