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The demands of recognition : state anthropology and ethnopolitics in Darjeeling
- Title
- The demands of recognition : state anthropology and ethnopolitics in Darjeeling / Townsend Middleton.
- Author
- Middleton, Townsend
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xix, 278 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- South Asia in motion
- Uniform Title
- South Asia in motion.
- Subjects
- Gorkha (South Asian people) > India > Darjeeling (District) > Ethnic identity
- Ethnology > Political aspects > India > Darjeeling (District)
- Gorkha (South Asian people) > India > Darjeeling (District) > Politics and government
- Ethnicity > Political aspects > India > Darjeeling (District)
- Identity politics > India > Darjeeling (District)
- Darjeeling (India : District) > Scheduled tribes > Government policy
- Gorkha (South Asian people) > India > Darjeeling (District) > Government relations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : becoming tribal in Darjeeling : an introduction to the ethno-contemporary -- A searching politics : anxiety, belonging, recognition -- Durga and the rock : a colonial category and its discontents -- Tribal recognition : a postcolonial problem -- Interface : encounters of the multicultural state -- Soft science in hard places : government anthropologists and their knowledge -- Reforming the subject : the effects and affects of recognition -- Perpetuated paradigms : at the limits of ethno-intelligibility -- Epilogue : negotiating the ethno-contemporary.
- Call Number
- DS432.G87
- ISBN
- 9780804795425 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804795428 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804796262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0804796262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2015007352
- OCLC
- 904047511
- ocn904047511
- SCSB-1835575
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library