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The Nation´s Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh “Diaspora”
Brian Keith Axel
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Paperback. Explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, this book focuses on the position of violence between 1849 and 1998 in the emergence of a trans-national fight for Khalistan. Num Pages: 312 pages, 15 b&w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 3JH; 3JJ; HRKS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
In The Nation’s Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, he focuses on the position of violence between 1849 and 1998 in the emergence of a transnational fight for Khalistan (an independent Sikh state). Axel argues that, rather than the homeland creating the diaspora, it has been the diaspora, or histories of displacement, that have created particular kinds of places—homelands.
Based on ethnographic and archival research conducted by Axel at several sites in ... Read more
In The Nation’s Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, he focuses on the position of violence between 1849 and 1998 in the emergence of a transnational fight for Khalistan (an independent Sikh state). Axel argues that, rather than the homeland creating the diaspora, it has been the diaspora, or histories of displacement, that have created particular kinds of places—homelands.
Based on ethnographic and archival research conducted by Axel at several sites in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822326151
SKU
V9780822326151
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About Brian Keith Axel
Brian Keith Axel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore College. He is the editor of From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for The Nation´s Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh “Diaspora”
“Historical anthropology at its best, The Nation's Tortured Body explores the history and politics of the Sikhs in a complex, and contested, transnational context. Axel’s book evocatively charts the ways in which the crossing and marking of boundaries have shaped the foundational identities of a diasporic community, providing a graphic illustration of the multiple meanings of the idea of ‘homeland’ ... Read more