Ethnic revival and religious turmoil : indentities and representations in the Himalayas / edited by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Pascale Dollfus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lecomte-Tilouine, Marie.

Dollfus, Pascale.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Himalaya Mountains Region--Congresses.

Ethnicity.

Religion and culture--Himalaya Mountains Region--Congresses.

Religion and culture.

Ethnic relations.

Himalaya Mountains Region--Ethnic relations--Congresses.

Himalaya Mountains Region.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 341 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Papers presented at a workshop held in Meudon, France in 1998.

Contents:

Reading sumnimā / Michael Hutt ; comments, Martin Gaenszle

Washing your neighbour's god : Buddhist royal ritual in fourteenth century Himalayan kingdoms / William B. Douglas ; comments Véronique Boullier

From cultural hierarchies to thea hierarchy of multiculturalism : the case of the Newars of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal / David N. Gellner ; comments Gérard Toffin

Differences and distances : contested ethnic markers in local national communities / Johanna Pfaff-Czarnecka ; comments Marie Lecomte-Tilouine

Bahuns : ethnicity without an 'ethnic group' / Gil Daryn ; comments Phillippe Ramirez

Identity and power in a conflictual environment / Ben Campbell ; comments Andras Höfer

Dumji and zhindka : local festival performance and patronage as a crucial source of Sherpa identity / Eberhard Berg ; comments Nicolas Sihlé

The janajati and the Nepali state : aspects of identity and integration / Karl-Heinz Krämer ;

comments Anne de Sales

Insiders and outsiders : community and identity in Kumaon, North India / Joanne Moller ; comments Antje Linkenbach

The art of representation : domesticating Ladakhi 'identity' / Martin van Beek ; comments Pascale Dollfus

Selves and others : representing multiplicities of difference in Gilgit, northern areas of Pakistan / Martin Sökefeld ; comments Marc Gaborieau.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0195655923

OCLC:

53711717