Rituals of ethnicity: Thangmi identities between Nepal and India/
Sara Shneiderman
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
- xvi, 305 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- (Contemporary ethnography) .
Of rocks and rivers : being both at once -- 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?
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Tribes--Government policy Himalaya Mountains Region Northeastern India Emigration and immigration--Political aspects Ethnicity--Political aspects