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Rituals of ethnicity: Thangmi identities between Nepal and India/ Sara Shneiderman

By: Shneiderman, Sara Series: (Contemporary ethnography)Publication details: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015Description: xvi, 305 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780812246834Subject(s): Tribes--Government policy | Himalaya Mountains Region | Northeastern India | Emigration and immigration--Political aspects | Ethnicity--Political aspectsDDC classification: 305.80095496

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	305.80095496 SHN/R (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		48884

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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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