Politics of Culture: A Study of Three Kirata Communities in the Eastern HimalayasOrient Blackswan, 1999 - 154 стор. This book traces the cultural proximity and the similar destinies of three Kirata communities living in the eastern Himalayas the Limbu, the Rai and the Yakkha. The author reconstructs the story of these communities on the basis of historical as well as ethnographic data and explains their need to reconstruct today an identity for themselves despite the time and cultural resources they have lost. |
Зміст
Kiratas in the Past | 22 |
Delineation of the Kirata World | 30 |
Internal Organisation of the Kiratas | 46 |
Social Organisation of the Kiratas | 55 |
Kiratas and Other Social Categories | 68 |
27 | 82 |
Foundations of Kirata Nationalism | 84 |
Politics of Kirata Culture | 104 |
Whither Kiratas? | 124 |
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Politics of Culture: A Study of Three Kirata Communities in the Eastern ... Tanka Bahadur Subba Перегляд фрагмента - 1999 |
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Aryan Bahuns Bhojpur Bhojpur district Bhutia blood sacrifice Brahman called Caplan caste castes/communities ceremony Chemjong Chhetri Chhinamakhu Chumlung concept considered Dahal Darjeeling and Sikkim deities Dewan Dharma discourse district dominant east Nepal eastern Himalayas ethnic exogamy festival Fieldwork goat Gorkha Gurung Hindu Hinduism homogenisation households identity important India indigenous instance Jabegou Janajati Jhapa Kalimpong Kathmandu Khambus Khola kinship kipat system Kirata languages Kirata nationalism Kirata politics land Lepchas Limbu culture Limbu language Limbuan Limbus and Yakkhas linguistic Madi Mulkharka male marriage middle hills migration Mongol Mongoloid mundhum nation-state Nembhang Nepalese Nepali language Newars non-Tagadhari Panchthar Panchthar district perhaps phedangma practice priest region Regmi relatives religion rite ritual Sabha Sakkewa samait Samang Samiti Sangh script Singh Sirijanga social Subba subjugated Sunuwar symbols Tagadharis three Kirata communities Tihar traditional tribe Untouchables various Vijayadashami village West Sikkim whereas worship writes Yakkhas Yakthung Yalang Yangnam
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Сторінка 132 - E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger (eds), The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-14. Jackson, Jean (1995) "Culture, genuine and spurious: the politics of Indianness in the V aupes, Colombia".