{"product_id":"the-demands-of-recognition-state-anthropology-and-ethnopolitics-in-darjeeling-9780804796262","title":"The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince 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 their communities, achieve greater prosperity, and secure political rights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking study, Townsend Middleton tracks these newfound lives of anthropology. Offering simultaneous ethnographies of the people of Darjeeling's quest for tribal status and the government anthropologists handling their claims, Middleton exposes how minorities are--and are not--recognized for affirmative action and autonomy. We encounter communities putting on elaborate spectacles of sacrifice, exorcism, bows and arrows, and blood drinking to prove their primitiveness and backwardness. Conversely, we see government anthropologists struggle for the ethnographic truth as communities increasingly turn academic paradigms back upon the state.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Demands of Recognition\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling look at the escalating politics of tribal recognition in India. At once ethnographic and historical, it chronicles how multicultural governance has motivated the people of Darjeeling to ethnologically redefine themselves--from Gorkha to tribal and back. But as these communities now know, not all forms of difference are legible in the eyes of the state. The Gorkhas' search for recognition has only amplified these communities' anxieties about who they are--and who they must be--if they are to attain the rights, autonomy, and belonging they desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Townsend Middleton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804796262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTownsend Middleton is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40635205222515,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":39.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4e5643d4-c687-4250-954f-7415b8309378.jpg?v=1671809825","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-demands-of-recognition-state-anthropology-and-ethnopolitics-in-darjeeling-9780804796262","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}