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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46976597 Title: Fluid boundaries : forming and transforming identity in Nepal Author: William F Fisher Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2001. ISBN/ISSN: 0231110863 9780231110860 0231110871 9780231110877 OCLC:46976597

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Fluid boundaries : forming and transforming identity in Nepal

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Fluid boundaries : forming and transforming identity in Nepal

Author:	William F Fisher
Publisher:	New York : Columbia University Press, ©2001.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	William F Fisher Find more information about:
ISBN:	0231110863 9780231110860 0231110871 9780231110877
OCLC Number:	46976597
Description:	xviii, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents:	Introduction: Thakali Again for the Very First Time -- Meeting at the Crossroads -- Searching for Culture in the Past -- Imagining Thakali -- Borderlands -- Tourists in Their Own Land -- Reclaiming Culture -- Agency/Action/Practice -- Fluid Boundaries -- Drawing Lines: On Constructing and Contesting Boundaries -- The Terms of Boundary Disputes -- Thak Khola -- The Term Thakali -- Contesting Boundaries -- Membership and Status, Groups and Categories -- Among the Thaksatsae Thakali: Ties That Bind, Lines That Divide -- Cutting Across Descent -- Khuwale and Thak Khole -- Summary: Criss-Crossing Boundaries -- Forging Histories -- Historical Narrative(s) -- Thakali Narratives of the Past -- Scholarship and the Reconstruction of the Past -- The Formation of the Gurkhali State -- The Effects of Nation Building -- Post-Salt Monopoly Adaptations -- Enter the Anthropologists, Surmising -- Separation and Integration: Community and Contestation -- Moving On -- Samaj -- Integration and Solidarity/Competition and Cooperation -- Dhikur: Rotating Credit -- Politics -- Ritual Landscapes -- Eclectic Ritual Pluralism -- Ancestor Rituals: "We Don't Have Any Gods" -- Mortuary Rites -- Marriages: Khimi Tapne -- Torongla -- Subclan Rites: Khimi Ramden -- Subclan Rites: Jho Khane -- Lha Phewa and Thakali Clans -- Migration and Descent Group Rituals -- Codifying Culture -- Codification and Contestation -- Forming a National Samaj -- Institutionalizing Contestation -- A New Social Order -- Codified Culture.
Responsibility:	William F. Fisher.

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