The Demands of Recognition : State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling / Townsend Middleton.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: English Series: South Asia in motionPublication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016Description: xix, 278 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmISBN: 9780804795425 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780804796262 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Ethnography -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 305.891496 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Textual Documents | Institute of Development Studies Kolkata | 305.891496 M584d (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 7993 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.
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.
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