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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]

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Description

xix, 278 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.

Summary

In this groundbreaking ethnography, Townsend Middleton engages two communities- minorities seeking tribal status and government anthropologists-to examine the escalating politics of recognition and affirmative action in India. From the violent struggles for Gorkhaland to the tribal turn of the 2000s, The Demands of Recognition follows the people of Darjeeling in their search for rights, autonomy, and belonging. Middleton explores the quandaries of twenty-first century social justice through those that know them best: marginalized minorities and civil servants. In doing so, he examines how recognition works, and how its ethno-logics transform communities in unexpected ways. Anthropology and ethnology have been central to governance on the subcontinent since the British colonial period. Today, however, the know-and-rule paradigms of old are being reworked, as communities turn anthropology back upon the state-and themselves-to empower their cause. The Demands of Recognition illustrates how non-academic anthropology has become vital to urgent negotiations over what it means to be a twenty-first century community: indigenous, tribal, and otherwise. Naming this global moment the ethno-contemporary, Middleton develops frameworks for navigating its myriad implications and possibilities.

Series Statement

South Asia in motion

Uniform Title

South Asia in motion

Subject

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.

ISBN

9780804795425
0804795428
9780804796262
0804796262
9780804796309 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015007352
40025377357

OCLC

ocn904047511
904047511
SCSB-1835575

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library