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Beyond Lines of Control
Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India
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English
Published/Copyright:
2004
About this book
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
Author / Editor information
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.
Reviews
“Beyond Lines of Control is a theoretically sophisticated, gracefully written ethnography about the politics of performance—and the performance of politics—in one of the most contested geopolitical landscapes in the world.”—Piya Chatterjee, author of A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
“Beyond Lines of Control is an informative book about a region that is understudied in both anthropology and area studies. By moving back and forth between the everyday and the extraordinary, the mundane and the memorialized, Ravina Aggarwal asks us to reflect on the politics of memory for a region that sees itself as forgotten and liminal in the history of the Indian nation-state.”—Kamala Visweswaran, author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Borders Performed
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1 Staging Independence Day
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2 Observing Rituals in the Inner Line Zone
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3 Screening a Contested Landscape
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4 Songs of Honor, Lines of Descent
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5 Border Games
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Conclusion: Flowing across the Lines
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Notes
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References
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Index
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
November 30, 2004
eBook ISBN:
9780822385899
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
320
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29 illustrations, 1 map
