The 'Bedes' of Bengal

Establishing an Ethnic Group through Portrayals

Carmen Brandt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2018
Lit Verlag
978-3-643-90670-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In the Bengali speaking regions of Bangladesh and India, the Bengali term bede today often evokes stereotypical imaginations of itinerant people. Of highly contested origin, the term has in the last two hundred years become the pivotal element for categorising and portraying diverse service nomads of the Bengal region. Besides an analysis of their portrayal in ethnographic and Bengali fictional literature, this book traces causes, reasons, and processes that have led to an increasing perception of these so-called `Bedes' as being ethnically different from the sedentary majority population.

Autor

Carmen Brandt is junior professor at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.12.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Transdisziplinäre Südasienstudien / Transdisciplinary South Asian Studies
• Verlagsort: Hamburg
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 199 x 226 mm
• Gewicht: 367 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• ISBN-10: 3-643-90670-6 / 3643906706
• ISBN-13: 978-3-643-90670-0 / 9783643906700
• Zustand: Neuware