The power of movement

Philippe Sagant’s research demonstrated the importance of mobility in building Himalayan societies and cultures. He understood migration as shaping village relations across time and space, and in this way, he historicized eastern Himalayan communities as participants in new global modernities. This...

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Published inAteliers d'anthropologie Vol. 49
Main Author Warner, Catherine
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
French
Published Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC) 11.01.2021
Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative
Subjects
colonialism
Eastern Himalaya
ethnicity
migration
Himalaya oriental
colonialism
migration
colonialisme
ethnicité
ethnicity
Eastern Himalaya
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Summary:Philippe Sagant’s research demonstrated the importance of mobility in building Himalayan societies and cultures. He understood migration as shaping village relations across time and space, and in this way, he historicized eastern Himalayan communities as participants in new global modernities. This article draws upon Sagant’s work to offer an overview of migration in Eastern Nepal and Darjeeling in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
ISSN:1245-1436
2117-3869
DOI:10.4000/ateliers.14138