Fluid boundaries: forming and transforming identity in Nepal
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1. Verfasser: Fisher, William F. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Columbia University Press c2001
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-281) and index
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 wi
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 295 p)
ISBN:9780231504805

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