Many Tongues, One People : The Making of Tharu Identity in Nepal /

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The Tharu of lowland Nepal are a group of culturally and linguistically diverse people who, only a few generations ago, would not have acknowledged each other as belonging to the same ethnic group. Today the Tharu are actively redefining themselves as a single ethnic group in Nepal's multiethni...

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Autor principal: Guneratne, Arjun (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Tharu (Peuple d'Asie meridionale) > Identite ethnique.
Tharu (South Asian people) > Ethnic identity.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t List of Illustrations --  |t List of Tables --  |t Preface --  |t Note to the Reader --  |t 1. Introduction: Ethnicity and Culture --  |t 2. The Tharu and the Tarai --  |t 3. Ethnicity and the Nepali State --  |t 4. Land, Labor, and Politics --  |t 5. Organizing the Elite --  |t 6. The Making of Tharu Identity --  |t 7. Conclusion --  |t Notes --  |t Glossary --  |t Bibliography --  |t Index 
520 |a The Tharu of lowland Nepal are a group of culturally and linguistically diverse people who, only a few generations ago, would not have acknowledged each other as belonging to the same ethnic group. Today the Tharu are actively redefining themselves as a single ethnic group in Nepal's multiethnic polity. In Many Tongues, One People, Arjun Guneratne argues that shared cultural symbols--including religion, language, and common myths of descent--are not a necessary condition for the existence of a shared sense of peoplehood. The many diverse and distinct socio-cultural groups sharing the name "Tharu" have been brought together, Guneratne asserts, by a common relationship to the state and a shared experience of dispossession and exploitation that transcends their cultural differences. Tharu identity, the author shows, has developed in opposition to the activities of a modernizing, centralizing state and through interaction with other ethnic groups that have immigrated to the Tarai region where the Tharu live.This book"s claims have wide implications for the study of ethnic identity and are applicable far beyond Nepal. The emergence of the category of Native American, for example, may be considered an analogous case because that ethnic identity, like the Tharu, subsumes people of different cultural origin, and has been defined both through the state and against it. 
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945 |a Project MUSE - Archive Archaeology and Anthropology Supplement VII 

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