Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
ISBN: 0195697928
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
2008 - Hardcover - 312 Seiten

This volume discusses issues of tribal identity and Maoist rebellion in the face of Hindu kingship and caste organization. The author bases her analysis of identity and interactions on written sources and oral conversations.

Table of Contents
Introduction: Stereotypes, Alterocenrtrism, and Alterization in Nepal
1. Spirits, Shamans and Englishmen: Perception of the Others in Vir Caritra, a 19th Century Nepalese Novel
2. Hindu Power in a Tribal Territory: The Cult of the Earth-Goddess Bhume among the Magars
3. The Enigmatic Pig: On Magar Participation in the State Rituals of Nepal
4. Desanskritization of the Magars: Ethno-History of a Group with no History
5. The Messianic and Rebel King Lakhan Thapa: Utopia andIdeology among the Magars
6. The Transgressive Nature of Hindu Kingship in Nepal
7. Regicide and Maoist Revolutionary Warfare: Modern Incarnations of a Warrior Kingdom
8. 'Kill one, he becomes one hundred': Martyrdom as Generative Sacrifice in the Nepal People's War

Marie Lecomte-Tilouine is Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Villejuif, France.