The Demands of Recognition : State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling /

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Author / Creator:Middleton, Townsend, author.
Imprint:Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Description:xix, 278 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:South Asia in motion
South Asia in motion.
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10485780
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ISBN:9780804795425 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804795428 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804796262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804796262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804796309 (ebk)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.
Standard no.:40025377357
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.