Marie Lecomte-Tilouine

Hindu Kingship, Ethnic Revival, and Maoist Rebellion in Nepal

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume discusses issues of tribal identity and Maoist rebellion in the face of Hindu kingship and caste organization in Nepal. The author bases her analysis of identity and interactions on written and oral conversations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780198072256
• ISBN-10: 0198072252
• Artikelnr.: 34552992

Autorenporträt

Marie Lecomte-Tilouine is .a senior researcher in social anthropology at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Photographs and map
* Acknowledgements
* Publisher's Acknowledgements
* Introduction: Stereotypes, Alterocentrism, and Alterization in Nepal;
* 1: Spirits, Shamans, and Englishmen: Perception of the Others in Vir
Caritra, a Nineteenth-Century Nepalese Novel;
* 2: Hindu Power in a Tribal Territory: The Cult of Bhume among the
Magars;
* 3: The Enigmatic Pig: On Magar Participation in the State Rituals of
Nepal;
* 4: Desanskritization of the Magars; Ethno-History of a Group with No
History;
* 5: The Messianic and Rebel King Lakhan Thapa: Utopia and Idelology
among the Magars;
* 6: The Transgressive Nature of Hindu Kingship in Nepal;
* 7: Regicide and Maoist Revolutionary Warfare in Nepal: Modern
Incarnations of a Warrior Kingdom;
* 8: 'Kill one, he becomes one hundred': Martyrdom as Generative
Scarifice in the Nepal People's War; Postscript
* Bibliography
* Index