Geographies of Difference

Explorations in Northeast Indian Studies
Herausgeber: Vandenhelsken, Mélanie; Karlsson, Bengt G; Barkataki-Ruscheweyh, Meenaxi

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Produktbeschreibung

The book highlights key issues of identity, politics, gender and religion in Northeast India. The essays examine a range of themes: theoretical debates, ethnography, economy, ecology, diversity, art, media and fashion. It also explores the nature of Indian federalism through centre-state relations and politics of contestations over homeland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138290198
• ISBN-10: 113829019X
• Artikelnr.: 49085307

Autorenporträt

Mélanie Vandenhelsken is a researcher in anthropology at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Documentation of Inner and South Asian Cultural History (CIRDIS), University of Vienna, Austria, and was formerly at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh is Research Fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Bengt. G. Karlsson is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. Preface Introducing Geographies of Difference:
Explorations in Northeast Indian Studies. Acknowledgements. List of
Contributors. Remembering Bianca Son: A Brief Overview of Her Scholarly
Life. Introduction: Northeastern Research Entanglements PART 1: HISTORICAL
AND ETHNOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS 1. Reading Fürer-Haimendorf in Northeast India
2. The Role of Informants in the Construction of the Zo as the Chin, Lushai
and the Kuki of Burma and of India 3. Sutured landscapes: Making of an
Imperial Frontier in Tripura (1848-1854) 4. Portrait of a Place:
Reflections about Fieldwork from the Foothills of Northeast India 5.
Ethnographic Study and Cultural Production in Sikkim PART 2: POLITICS OF
LAND AND MATERIAL RESOURCES 6. Hydro-dollar Dreams: Emergent Local Politics
of Large Dams and Small Communities 7. Violence, Agrarian Change and the
Politics of Autonomy in Assam 8. Naga Art and Their Market Through Time.
Delocalisation, State Control and Globalisation 9. Youth Fashion and the
Identity of Resistance in Northeast India PART 3: IN AND OUT OF THE STATE
10. Decades of 'Ethnic Massacre' in Bodoland. The State and the Framing of
Conflict in India's Northeast 11. Diversity and Difference: The Art of
Electioneering in Meghalaya 12. From the Shackles of Tradition: Motherhood
and Women's Agitation in Manipur 13. Mizo Identity: The Role of the Young
Mizo Association (YMA) in Mizoram 14. Situating Language, Recognizing
Multilingualism: Linguistic Identities and Mother Tongue Attachment in
Northeast India and the Region AFTERWORD Contested, Vertical, Fragmenting:
De-Partitioning 'Northeast India' Studies. Index