We Were Adivasis - Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe

Through an ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, this book brings you inside an imaginative work of these long-marginalized tribal communities. It shows how they must affirm and refute their tribal status on a range of levels, from domestic interactions to historical representation, by relegating their status to the past. Zusammenfassung Through an ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, this book brings you inside an imaginative work of these long-marginalized tribal communities. It shows how they must affirm and refute their tribal status on a range of levels, from domestic interactions to historical representation, by relegating their status to the past.

Product details

• Authors: Megan Moodie, Moodie Megan
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2015
• EAN: 9780226252995
• ISBN: 978-0-226-25299-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines; South Asia Across the Discipli; South Asia Across the Disciplines; South Asia Across the Discipli
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, India, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology