Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India

by Sara Shneiderman

Book Overview

Rituals of Ethnicity is a transnational study of the relationships between mobility, ethnicity, and ritual action. Through an ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones of Nepal, India, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, Shneiderman offers a new explanation for the persistence of enduring ethnic identities today despite the increasing realities of mobile, hybrid lives. She shows...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812246837
• ISBN13: 9780812246834
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"