Name: The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling (South Asia in Motion) (en Inglés)
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Author: Middleton, Townsend
ISBN: 9780804796262

portada The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling (South Asia in Motion) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Townsend Middleton

Editorial

Stanford University Press

Año

2015

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

298

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9780804796262

N° edición

Categorías

Sociología
Materia antropología social y cultural etnográfica
Nacionalismo

The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling (South Asia in Motion) (en Inglés)

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Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities, achieve greater prosperity, and secure political rights. In this groundbreaking study, Townsend Middleton tracks these newfound "lives" of anthropology. Offering simultaneous ethnographies of the people of Darjeeling's quest for "tribal" status and the government anthropologists handling their claims, Middleton exposes how minorities are--and are not--recognized for affirmative action and autonomy. We encounter communities putting on elaborate spectacles of sacrifice, exorcism, bows and arrows, and blood drinking to prove their "primitiveness" and "backwardness." Conversely, we see government anthropologists struggle for the ethnographic truth as communities increasingly turn academic paradigms back upon the state. The Demands of Recognition offers a compelling look at the escalating politics of tribal recognition in India. At once ethnographic and historical, it chronicles how multicultural governance has motivated the people of Darjeeling to ethnologically redefine themselves--from Gorkha to tribal and back. But as these communities now know, not all forms of difference are legible in the eyes of the state. The Gorkhas' search for recognition has only amplified these communities' anxieties about who they are--and who they must be--if they are to attain the rights, autonomy, and belonging they desire.