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Informationen zum Autor Ravina Aggarwal is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Smith College. She is the editor of Into the High Ranges: The Penguin Anthology of Mountain Writings and the editor and translator of Forsaking Paradise: Stories from Ladakh, by Abdul Ghani Sheikh. She was a founding editor of the journal Meridians. Klappentext A historical and ethnographic account of a region located on the border of India and Pakistan; the people who live there engage with the specter of war and religious conflict, racial identity, and the processes of modernity through varying performative mo Zusammenfassung A historical and ethnographic account of a region located on the border of India and Pakistan; the people who live there engage with the specter of war and religious conflict! racial identity! and the processes of modernity through varying performative mo Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Borders Performed 1 1. Staging Independence Day 21 2. Observing Rituals in the Inner Line Zone 57 3. Screening a Contested Landscape 103 4. Songs of Honor, Lines of Descent 149 5. Border Games 179 Conclusion: Flowing across the Lines 223 Notes 237 References 267 Index 287
