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- Title
The Social Life of an Ethnonym.
- Authors
BIRD-DAVID, NURIT
- Abstract
In this article I trace the ironic social life of the ethnic names used for a forest-dwelling people living in the Nilgiri-Wynaad in South India in various intersecting arenas: local, colonial, and postcolonial. They call themselves sonta (translatable as "own, relatives who live together"), usually preixed by nama (our). Outsiders, such as the neighbors in their multi-ethnic region, and colonial and postcolonial administrators, have regarded them by various ethnonyms including Nayaka/Kattunayaka. I examine the meanings and politics of their appellations in this case study of the complex processes of making indigenous polities in India.
- Subjects
INDIA; ETHNOLOGICAL names; ETHNOLOGY; ETHNIC groups; INDIGENOUS peoples; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Asian Ethnology, 2014, Vol 73, Issue 1/2, p139
- ISSN
1882-6865
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18874/ae.73.1-2.08