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Dancing to the State - The Ethnic Compulsions of the Tangsa in Assam (Hardcover)
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Dancing to the State - The Ethnic Compulsions of the Tangsa in Assam (Hardcover)
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Can small indigenous communities survive, as distinct cultural
entities, in northeast India, an area of mindboggling ethnic,
linguistic and cultural diversity? What are the choices such
communities have, and what are some of the strategies such
communities use to resist marginalisation? In recent years, many
such small groups are participating in large state sponsored ethnic
festivals, and organising their own community festivals. But are
these signs of their increasing agency or simply proof of their
continued marginalisation? How do state policies and political
borders - inter-state as well as international - impact on a
community's need to perform their ethnicity? These are some of the
questions that will be addressed in this work, on the basis of
ethnographic field work conducted among the small Tangsa community
living in Assam in northeast India. The study also reveals the
asymmetry in the relations between the dominant power-wielding
Assamese and the Tangsa. In summary, this is a study about
marginality and its consequences, about performance of ethnicity at
festivals as sites for both resistance and capitulation, and about
the compulsions, imposed by the state and dominant neighbours, that
can force small ethnic groups to contribute to their own
marginalisation.
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