Across the interface of state ethnography: Rethinking ethnology and its subjects in multicultural India

American Ethnologist

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 249-266

  Middleton, C Townsend ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology of knowledge; Ethnology; India.; Multiculturalism; Paraethnography; Politics of recognition; State

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955508284     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01304.x     Document Type: Article

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