The demands of recognition : state anthropology and ethnopolitics in Darjeeling /

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Main Author: Middleton, Townsend
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford University Press, 2016
Series:South Asia in motion.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : becoming tribal in Darjeeling : an introduction to the ethno-contemporary -- A searching politics : anxiety, belonging, recognition -- Durga and the rock : a colonial category and its discontents -- Tribal recognition : a postcolonial problem -- Interface : encounters of the multicultural state -- Soft science in hard places : government anthropologists and their knowledge -- Reforming the subject : the effects and affects of recognition -- Perpetuated paradigms : at the limits of ethno-intelligibility -- Epilogue : negotiating the ethno-contemporary.