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

The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling

South Asia in Motion

Townsend Middleton

304 pages first pub 2015 (view editions)

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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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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