Dancing to the State: Ethnic Compulsions of the Tangsa in Assam - Couverture rigide

Barkataki-Ruscheweyh, Meenaxi

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199472599 ISBN 13 : 9780199472598

Editeur : OUP India, 2017

Synopsis

Can small indigenous communities survive, as distinct cultural entities, in northeast India, an area of mindboggling ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity? What are the choices such communities have, and what are some of the strategies such communities use to resist marginalisation? In recent years, many such small groups are participating in large state sponsored ethnic festivals, and organising their own community festivals. But are these signs of their increasing agency or simply proof of their continued marginalisation? How do state policies and political borders -- inter-state as well as international -- impact on a community's need to perform their ethnicity? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this work, on the basis of ethnographic field work conducted among the small Tangsa community living in Assam in northeast India. The study also reveals the asymmetry in the relations between the dominant power-wielding Assamese and the Tangsa. In summary, this is a study about marginality and its consequences, about performance of ethnicity at festivals as sites for both resistance and capitulation, and about the compulsions, imposed by the state and dominant neighbours, that can force small ethnic groups to contribute to their own marginalisation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh is Research Fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199472599
• ISBN 13: 9780199472598
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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