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The People of Nyishang : = Identity, Tradition and Change in the Nepal-Tibet Borderland (Ethnicity).

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Title/Author:	The People of Nyishang :/
Reminder of title:	Identity, Tradition and Change in the Nepal-Tibet Borderland (Ethnicity).
Author:	Cooke, Merritt Todd.
Description:	1 online resource (347 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 46-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International46-07A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
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ISBN:	9798205720229

The People of Nyishang : = Identity, Tradition and Change in the Nepal-Tibet Borderland (Ethnicity).
Cooke, Merritt Todd.

The People of Nyishang :Identity, Tradition and Change in the Nepal-Tibet Borderland (Ethnicity). - 1 online resource (347 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 46-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1985.

Includes bibliographical references

The cultural complexity and ethnic diversity of Nepal's population pose a unique set of problems in Nepalese ethnography and in the anthropological understanding of ethnicity. This study confronts these problems by probing the identity of a trading people whose homeland in Nyishang (Manang Valley) is located along the cultural interface where Hindu and Buddhist traditions have historically intermingled. Following an introduction and setting which situate the Nyishang population in a broader ecological and ethnic context, consideration is given in Chapter Three to the economic adaptation of the group. A historical pattern of international itinerant trade receives special attention. In its current form, this trade is shown to be related to an emergent class-based differentiation between village- and urban-resident segments of the population. Chapter Four examines leadership and political initiative within the group as it relates to the organization of this economic adaptation. The first part of the chapter traces the history of political mobilization by the group in defence of its trading privileges within the wider society. The second part contrasts these traditions of concerted political unity in relations with outsiders to a tradition of feuding and village rivalry within the group. Chapter Five analyzes the local organization of kinship and alliance as a structure underlying dynamics of group unity and intra-group conflict. Individual social networks are identified as a locus of competing power within the group but are shown to be subordinated to a structure of valley-wide political representation in relations with outsiders. The relevance of informal support networks and formal rights of enfranchisement to processes whereby certain categories of village residents are excluded from ethnic membership in the group is also discussed. The final chapter examines aspects of group identity from the perspective of the group's own system of culturally-constructed meaning. The aim is to show how the organization of group identity as expressed in religious belief and ritual practice is sustained by a value system in which community and religious values interpenetrate. The cleavage of the community into rural and urban segments is shown to relate to contemporary movements of religious regeneration. The acquisition of wealth by individual traders is shown to relate, through rites of distribution and acts of patronage, to the social and religious affirmation of community ties.

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