Vernacular Politics in Northeast India - Democracy, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity (Hardcover)

Perhaps nowhere in India is contemporary politics and visions of 'the political' as diverse, animated, uncontainable, and poorly understood as in Northeast India. Vernacular Politics in Northeast India offers penetrating accounts into what guides and animates Northeast India's spirited political sphere, including the categories and values through which its peoples conceive of their 'political' lives. Fourteen essays by anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and geographers think their way afresh into the region's political life and sense. Collectively they show how different communities, instead of adjusting themselves to modern democratic ideals, adjust democracy to themselves, how ethnicity has become a politically pregnant expression of local identities, and how forms and politics of indigeneity assume a life of its own as it is taken on, articulated, reworked, and fought over by peoples.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2022
Editors:	Jelle J.P. Wouters (Social Anthropologist)
Dimensions:	223 x 146 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	426
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-286346-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Political correctness
LSN:	0-19-286346-0
Barcode:	9780192863461

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