{"product_id":"rituals-of-ethnicity-9780812246834","title":"Rituals of Ethnicity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRituals of Ethnicity\u003c\/i\u003e is a transnational study of the relationships between mobility, ethnicity, and ritual action. Through an ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones of Nepal, India, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, Shneiderman offers a new explanation for the persistence of enduring ethnic identities today despite the increasing realities of mobile, hybrid lives. She shows that ethnicization may be understood as a process of ritualization, which brings people together around the shared sacred object of identity.\u003cbr\u003eThe first comprehensive ethnography of the Thangmi, \u003ci\u003eRituals of Ethnicity\u003c\/i\u003e is framed by the Maoist-state civil conflict in Nepal and the movement for a separate state of Gorkhaland in India. The histories of individual nation-states in this geopolitical hotspot—as well as the cross-border flows of people and ideas between them—reveal the far-reaching and mutually entangled discou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Theoretically informed (but never pompous), attractively and clearly written (but not overwritten), ethnographically grounded (but never boring), multi-sited and boundary-crossing, politically aware, engaged, and reflexive, Sara Shneiderman's ethnographic monograph makes a significant, indeed brilliant, intervention in Himalayan anthropology, one that is (or ought to be) just as relevant for specialists of India as it is for scholars of Nepal.\" * David Gellner, in \u003ci\u003ePacific Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"An entirely unique and stunning ethnography. Shneiderman finds herself assisting the Thangmi's drive to manifest their distinctiveness and seek recognition. She manages a high-wire performance herself: one full of compassion, acute theoretical insight, exemplary balance, and respect for the sacredness of the quest-doing as much credit to ethnography as a craft as to the Thangmi as a people. Few have been as fortunate in their ethnographer as the Thangmi.\" * James C. Scott, Yale University *\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant and original, \u003ci\u003eRituals of Ethnicity\u003c\/i\u003e traces how identity, ethnicity, and indigeneity are constructed by members of a marginalized group within different state structures. Arguing for the importance of often self-conscious rituals for mobilizing and objectifying ethnicity, Shneiderman shows how anthropology too can be marshaled for this project, recasting ethnography as a variety of ritualized performance.\" * Kirin Narayan, Australian National University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Of Rocks and Rivers—Being Both at Once\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Framing, Practicing, and Performing Ethnicity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Origin Myths and Myths of Originality\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Circular Migration, Circular Economies of Belonging and Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Developing Associations of Ethnicity and Class\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Transcendent Territory, Portable Deities, and the Problem of Indigeneity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Work of Life-Cycle Rituals and the Power of Parallel Descent\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Resisting the End of a Ritual\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: \u003ci\u003eThami ke ho?\u003c\/i\u003e—What Is Thami?\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405724983639,"sku":"9780812246834","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812246834.jpg?v=1730493401","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rituals-of-ethnicity-9780812246834","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}