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999 _c198319
_d198319
020 _a9780812246834
040 _cCUS
082 _a305.80095496
_bSHN/R
100 _aShneiderman, Sara
_919525
245 _aRituals of ethnicity: Thangmi identities between Nepal and India/
_cSara Shneiderman
260 _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c2015.
_aPhiladelphia:
300 _axvi, 305 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c24 cm.
440 _a(Contemporary ethnography)
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505 _aOf rocks and rivers : being both at once -- Framing, practicing, and performing ethnicity -- Origin myths and myths of originality -- Circular economies of migration, belonging, and citizenship -- Developing associations of ethnicity and class -- Transcendent territory, portable deities, and the problem of indigeneity -- The work of life-cycle rituals and the power of parallel descent -- Resisting the end of a ritual -- Epilogue : Thami ke ho? What is Thami?
650 _aTribes--Government policy
_919527
650 _aHimalaya Mountains Region
_93440
650 _aNortheastern India
650 _aEmigration and immigration--Political aspects
_919528
650 _aEthnicity--Political aspects
_912964
942 _cWB16
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