The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling by Townsend Middleton

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The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling

Townsend Middleton

304 pages hardcover 2015

3 editions

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Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine t...

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