Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
ISBN: 978-0-231-11087-7
Verlag: Columbia University Press
More than an ethnography, this book clarifies one of the most important current debates in anthropology: How should anthropologists regard culture, history, and the power process?
Since the 1980s, the Thakali of Nepal have searched for an identity and a clarification of their "true" culture and history in the wake of their rise to political power and achievement of economic success. Although united in this search, the Thakali are divided as to the answers that have been proposed: the "Hinduization" of religious practices, the promotion of Tibetan Buddhism, the revival of practices associated with the Thakali shamans, and secularization.
Ironically, the attempts by the Thakali to define their identity reveal that to return to tradition they must first re-create it but this process of re-creation establishes it in a way in which it has never existed. To return to "tradition" to become Thakali again is, in a way, to become Thakali for the very first time.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Maps and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Thakali Again for the Very First Time2. Drawing Lines: On Constructing and Contesting Boundaries3. Forging Histories4. Separation and Integration: Community and Contestation5. Ritual Landscapes6. Codifying Culture7. Constructing Thakali8. Beyond Sanskritization9. Old Artificers in a New SmithyNotesGlossaryWorks CitedIndex
