Rituals of Ethnicity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rituals of Ethnicity write by Sara Shneiderman. This book was released on 2015-03-25. Rituals of Ethnicity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones, Rituals of Ethnicity explores Thangmi cultural worlds and regional political histories to offer a new explanation for the persistence of enduring ethnic identities despite the realities of mobile, hybrid lives.
Rituals of Ethnicity
Rituals of Ethnicity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rituals of Ethnicity write by Sara Shneiderman. This book was released on 2015-02-02. Rituals of Ethnicity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 offers a new explanation for the persistence of enduring ethnic identities today despite the increasing realities of mobile, hybrid lives. She shows that ethnicization may be understood as a process of ritualization, which brings people together around the shared sacred object of identity. The first comprehensive ethnography of the Thangmi, Rituals of Ethnicity is framed by the Maoist-state civil conflict in Nepal and the movement for a separate state of Gorkhaland in India. The histories of individual nation-states in this geopolitical hotspot—as well as the cross-border flows of people and ideas between them—reveal the far-reaching and mutually entangled discourses of democracy, communism, development, and indigeneity that have transformed the region over the past half century. Attentive to the competing claims of diverse members of the Thangmi community, from shamans to political activists, Shneiderman shows how Thangmi ethnic identity is produced collaboratively by individuals through ritual actions embedded in local, national, and transnational contexts. She builds upon the specificity of Thangmi experiences to tell a larger story about the complexities of ethnic consciousness: the challenges of belonging and citizenship under conditions of mobility, the desire to both lay claim to and remain apart from the civil society of multiple states, and the paradox of self-identification as a group with cultural traditions in need of both preservation and development. Through deep engagement with a diverse, cross-border community that yearns to be understood as a distinctive, coherent whole, Rituals of Ethnicity presents an argument for the continued value of locally situated ethnography in a multisited world. Cover art: Lost Culture Can Not Be Reborn, painting by Mahendra Thami, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.
Celebrating the Family
Celebrating the Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celebrating the Family write by Elizabeth H. Pleck. This book was released on 2000-07-04. Celebrating the Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pleck examines changes in the way Americans celebrate holidays like Christmas or birthdays.
Roots & Rituals
Roots & Rituals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roots & Rituals write by Ton Dekker. This book was released on 2000. Roots & Rituals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal
Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal write by David N. Gellner. This book was released on 2020-01-01. Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The socio-political landscape of Nepal has been rocked by dramatic and far-reaching changes in the past thirty years. Following a ten-year Maoist revolution and civil war, the country has transitioned from a monarchy to a republic. The former Hindu kingdom has declared its commitment to secularism, without coming to any agreement on what secularism means or should mean in the Nepalese context. What happens to religion under conditions of such rapid social and political change? How do the changes in public festivals reflect and/or create new group identities? Is the gap between the urban and the rural narrowing? How is the state dealing with Nepal’s multicultural and multi-religious society? How are Nepalis understanding, resisting, and adapting ideas of secularism? In order to answer these important questions, this volume brings together eleven case studies by an international team of anthropologists and ethno-Indologists of Nepal on such diverse topics as secularism, individualism, shamanism, animal sacrifice, the role of state functionaries in festivals, clashes and synergies between Maoism and Buddhism, and conversion to Christianity. In an Afterword, renowned political theorist Rajeev Bhargava presents a comparative analysis of Nepal’s experiences and asks whether the country is finding its own solution to the conundrum of secularism.
