Ethnic revival and religious turmoil
Subtitle: indentities and representations in the Himalayas
By: edited by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Pascale Dollfus.
Contributors: Lecomte-Tilouine, Marie.; Dollfus, Pascale.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Ethnicity -- Himalaya Mountains Region -- Congresses.; Religion and culture -- Himalaya Mountains Region -- Congresses.; Himalaya Mountains Region -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Papers presented at a workshop held in Meudon, France in 1998.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Reading sumnimā / Michael Hutt ; comments, Martin Gaenszle; title: Washing your neighbour's god : Buddhist royal ritual in fourteenth century Himalayan kingdoms / William B. Douglas ; comments Véronique Boullier; title: From cultural hierarchies to thea hierarchy of multiculturalism : the case of the Newars of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal / David N. Gellner ; comments Gérard Toffin; title: Differences and distances : contested ethnic markers in local national communities / Johanna Pfaff-Czarnecka ; comments Marie Lecomte-Tilouine; title: Bahuns : ethnicity without an 'ethnic group' / Gil Daryn ; comments Phillippe Ramirez; title: Identity and power in a conflictual environment / Ben Campbell ; comments Andras Höfer; title: Dumji and zhindka : local festival performance and patronage as a crucial source of Sherpa identity / Eberhard Berg ; comments Nicolas Sihlé; title: The janajati and the Nepali state : aspects of identity and integration / Karl-Heinz Krämer ;; title: comments Anne de Sales; title: Insiders and outsiders : community and identity in Kumaon, North India / Joanne Moller ; comments Antje Linkenbach; title: The art of representation : domesticating Ladakhi 'identity' / Martin van Beek ; comments Pascale Dollfus; title: Selves and others : representing multiplicities of difference in Gilgit, northern areas of Pakistan / Martin Sökefeld ; comments Marc Gaborieau.