Rituals of Ethnicity : : Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India / / Sara Shneiderman.
Rituals of Ethnicity is a transnational study of the relationships between mobility, ethnicity, and ritual action. Through an ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones of Nepal, India, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, Shneiderman offer...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary Ethnography
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 22 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Of Rocks and Rivers-Being Both at Once
- Chapter 2. Framing, Practicing, and Performing Ethnicity
- Chapter 3. Origin Myths and Myths of Originality
- Chapter 4. Circular Economies of Migration, Belonging, and Citizenship
- Chapter 5. Developing Associations of Ethnicity and Class
- Chapter 6. Transcendent Territory, Portable Deities, and the Problem of Indigeneity
- Chapter 7. The Work of Life-Cycle Rituals and the Power of Parallel Descent
- Chapter 8. Resisting the End of a Ritual
- Epilogue. Thami ke ho?-What Is Thami?
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments