Ina Zharkevich

Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on long-term fieldwork in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book studies the war-time social processes during the civil war and their long-term legacy on the constitution of Nepali society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781108497466
• ISBN-10: 1108497462
• Artikelnr.: 54804392

Autorenporträt

Ina Zharkevich is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Thabang: from remote village to revolutionary myth
2. The moral economy of war: the making of the base area
3. Becoming Maoist in a time of insurgency
4. The marital economy of war: reconfiguring kinship loyalties and conjugality
5. Remaking the tribe: 'a farewell to bad traditions'
6. Subverting the 'sacred cow': when beef becomes edible
7. When all castes become one: transgressing caste boundaries during war
8. When gods return to their homeland in the Himalayas: Maoism, religion, and change
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.