Fluid Boundaries : : Forming and Transforming Identity in Nepal / / William Fisher.
More than an ethnography, this book clarifies one of the most important current debates in anthropology: How should anthropologists regard culture, history, and the power process?Since the 1980s, the Thakali of Nepal have searched for an identity and a clarification of their "true" culture...
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Fisher, William, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fluid Boundaries : Forming and Transforming Identity in Nepal / William Fisher. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2001] ©2001 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Thakali Again for the Very First Time -- 2 Drawing Lines: On Constructing and Contesting Boundaries -- 3 Forging Histories -- 4 Separation and Integration: Community and Contestation -- 5 Ritual Landscapes -- 6 Codifying Culture -- 7 Constructing Thakali -- 8 Beyond Sanskritization -- 9 Old Artificers in a New Smithy -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star More than an ethnography, this book clarifies one of the most important current debates in anthropology: How should anthropologists regard culture, history, and the power process?Since the 1980s, the Thakali of Nepal have searched for an identity and a clarification of their "true" culture and history in the wake of their rise to political power and achievement of economic success. Although united in this search, the Thakali are divided as to the answers that have been proposed: the "Hinduization" of religious practices, the promotion of Tibetan Buddhism, the revival of practices associated with the Thakali shamans, and secularization. Ironically, the attempts by the Thakali to define their identity reveal that to return to tradition they must first re-create it-but this process of re-creation establishes it in a way in which it has never existed. To return to "tradition"-to become Thakali again-is, in a way, to become Thakali for the very first time. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Thakali (Nepalese people) Ethnic identity. Thakali (Nepalese people) Social life and customs. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231110877 https://doi.org/10.7312/fish11086 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231504805 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231504805/original |
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