Dancing to the State
Ethnic Compulsions of the Tangsa in Assam
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Publication date:
08/05/2017
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352 pages
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ISBN:
9780199472598
Publication date:
08/05/2017
Hardback
352 pages
Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh
Diversity in northeast India is often celebrated and performed. There has been a spate of ethnic festivals in this region in the recent years, but a question remains: Are these activities of ethnic revival signs of increasing agency or proof of their continued marginalization? Situated around the tiny Tangsa community of Assam, this narrative ethnography looks at ethnic marginality and the compulsions imposed on minority communities by the dominant community, state policies, and political borders.
Rights: World Rights
Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh
Description
Can small indigenous communities survive as distinct cultural entities in northeast India, an area characterized by mind-boggling ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity? What are the choices that such minority groups have, and how do they resist further marginalization?
Diversity in northeast India is often celebrated and performed. There has been a spate of ethnic festivals in this region in the recent years, but a question remains: Are these activities of ethnic revival signs of increasing agency or proof of their continued marginalization? Situated around the tiny Tangsa community of Assam, this narrative ethnography looks at ethnic marginality and the compulsions imposed on minority communities by the dominant community, state policies, and political borders.
In a novel anthropological endeavour, the author portrays the concerns of the Tangsa community through multiple case studies while also reflecting on questions arising from the fact that she belongs to the dominant Assamese community. Unlike a theoretical treatise, the aim in this book is to empower the subjects of study by narrating their life stories and everyday concerns in simple language, thereby addressing a wider audience.
About the Author
Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh is Research Fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh
Table of contents
List of Maps, Figures, Photographs, Sketches, and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Setting the Scene
2. Introduction to the Tirap Area
3. Getting Acquainted with the Tangsa
4. Kharangkong: The Last Bastion of the Old World
5. Malugaon: Striking a Fine Balance
6. Phulbari: Christianity as a Way of Life
7. The Tangsa in Arunachal: Life beyond the Fence
8. Closing the Circle: Festivals and Ethnic Identity
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh
Features
- Fills a gap in our knowledge about small hill communities living in northeast India
- Addresses questions of identity construction of tribal groups by analyzing the performance of their ethnicity at festivals
- Case study of some of the causes leading to the recent attempts at ethnic revival that are being made by many small minority communities in India
Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh
Description
Can small indigenous communities survive as distinct cultural entities in northeast India, an area characterized by mind-boggling ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity? What are the choices that such minority groups have, and how do they resist further marginalization?
Diversity in northeast India is often celebrated and performed. There has been a spate of ethnic festivals in this region in the recent years, but a question remains: Are these activities of ethnic revival signs of increasing agency or proof of their continued marginalization? Situated around the tiny Tangsa community of Assam, this narrative ethnography looks at ethnic marginality and the compulsions imposed on minority communities by the dominant community, state policies, and political borders.
In a novel anthropological endeavour, the author portrays the concerns of the Tangsa community through multiple case studies while also reflecting on questions arising from the fact that she belongs to the dominant Assamese community. Unlike a theoretical treatise, the aim in this book is to empower the subjects of study by narrating their life stories and everyday concerns in simple language, thereby addressing a wider audience.
About the Author
Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh is Research Fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Table of contents
List of Maps, Figures, Photographs, Sketches, and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Setting the Scene
2. Introduction to the Tirap Area
3. Getting Acquainted with the Tangsa
4. Kharangkong: The Last Bastion of the Old World
5. Malugaon: Striking a Fine Balance
6. Phulbari: Christianity as a Way of Life
7. The Tangsa in Arunachal: Life beyond the Fence
8. Closing the Circle: Festivals and Ethnic Identity
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
