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Rituals of ethnicity : Thangmi identities between Nepal and India / Sara Shneiderman.
Penn Museum Library DS493.9.T46 S56 2015
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LIBRA DS493.9.T46 S56 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shneiderman, Sara, 1975- author.
- Series:
- Contemporary ethnography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- 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.
- Tribes--Government policy--India, Northeastern.
- Ethnicity--Political aspects--Himalaya Mountains Region.
- Ethnicity.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Ethnicity--Political aspects.
- Tribes--Government policy.
- Himalaya Mountains Region--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.
- Himalaya Mountains Region.
- Northeastern India.
- Nepal.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
- 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, portable 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?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812246834
- 0812246837
- OCLC:
- 889577117
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