Authors: Professor Sara Shneiderman, Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Department of Anthropology, UBC; George Paul Meiu, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Jean Comaroff , Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University; John L. Comaroff, Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
Professor Sara Shneiderman’s chapter “The Affective Potentialities and Politics of Ethnicity, Inc. in Restructuring Nepal: Social Science, Sovereignty, and Signification” in the publication “Ethnicity, Commodity, In/Corporation” explores the relationship between ethnicity and territory as differentially objectified by various actors rather than only on the commodification of ethnicity itself, and how the specific historical trajectories of territorial integration into the nation-state shape contemporary ideologies of sovereignty among different groups, even within the boundaries of a single contemporary country.
This article was supported by Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant and the UBC Hampton Faculty Fellowship.
