Title: Ethnic revival and religious turmoil : identities and representations in the Himalayas /
Authors: Lecomte-Tilouine, Marie.; Dollfus, Pascale.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Ethnicity Himalaya Mountains Region Congresses.; Religion and culture Himalaya Mountains Region Congresses.; Himalaya Mountains Region Ethnic relations Congresses.
Abstract: Papers presented at a workshop held in Meudon, France in 1998.
Contents: Reading sumnimā / Michael Hutt ; comments, Martin Gaenszle -- Washing your neighbour's god : Buddhist royal ritual in fourteenth century Himalayan kingdoms / William B. Douglas ; comments Véronique Boullier -- From cultural hierarchies to thea hierarchy of multiculturalism : the case of the Newars of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal / David N. Gellner ; comments Gérard Toffin -- Differences and distances : contested ethnic markers in local national communities / Johanna Pfaff-Czarnecka ; comments Marie Lecomte-Tilouine -- Bahuns : ethnicity without an 'ethnic group' / Gil Daryn ; comments Phillippe Ramirez -- Identity and power in a conflictual environment / Ben Campbell ; comments Andras Höfer -- Dumji and zhindka : local festival performance and patronage as a crucial source of Sherpa identity / Eberhard Berg ; comments Nicolas Sihlé -- The janajati and the Nepali state : aspects of identity and integration / Karl-Heinz Krämer ;