Congratulations to Dr. Sara Shneiderman whose book Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India, has been awarded the 2017 James Fisher Book Award from the Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies for First Books on the Himalayan Region!
Dr. Shneiderman’s book, Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), is a study of mobility and ritual action. Through an ethnography of the Thangmi, a community who migrate between Himalayan border zones of Nepal, India, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, the book explores the maintenance of ethnicity in modern Thangmi communities. Set in a time of political conflict in Nepal and separatist movements in India, the book chronicles how democracy, communism, development, and indigeneity have all impacted Thangmi identity over time.
