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Rituals of ethnicity : Thangmi identities between Nepal and India /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shneiderman, Sara, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Contemporary ethnography.
Subjects:
Thami (South Asian people)
Thami (South Asian people) > Ethnic identity.
Thami (South Asian people) > Migrations.
Thami (South Asian people) > Nepal > Government relations.
Thami (South Asian people) > India, Northeastern > Government relations.
Tribes > Government policy > Nepal.
Tribes > Government policy > India, Northeastern.
Ethnicity > Political aspects > Himalaya Mountains Region.
Himalaya Mountains Region > Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Of rocks and rivers : being both at one
  • Framing, practicing, and performing ethnicity
  • Origin myths and myths of originality
  • Circular economies of migration, belonging, and citizenship
  • Developing associations of ethnicity and class
  • Transcendent territory, portablie deities, and the problem of indigeneity
  • The work of life-cycle rituals and the power of parallel descent
  • Resisting the end of a ritual
  • Epilogue : Thami ke ho? What is Thami?