The demands of recognition : state anthropology and ethnopolitics in Darjeeling /

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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 prosperit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Middleton, Townsend (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Colección:South Asia in motion.
Temas:
Ethnology > Political aspects > India > Darjeeling (District)
Ethnicity > Political aspects > India > Darjeeling (District)
Identity politics > India > Darjeeling (District)
Ethnologie > Aspect politique > Inde > Darjeeling (District)
Ethnicité > Aspect politique > Inde > Darjeeling (District)
Politique identitaire > Inde > Darjeeling (District)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Ethnicity > Political aspects
Ethnology > Political aspects
Identity politics
Darjeeling (India : District) > Scheduled tribes > Government policy.
India > Darjeeling (District)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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