Marion Wettstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4064130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marion Wettstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marion |
| FAMILY NAME | Wettstein |
| SIGNATURE | WETTSTEIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Increasing Materiality and Emerging Concepts of Ethnic Religious Identity
Traditionally lacking temples, mass processions, pilgrimage traditions, full time ritual specialists, or painting traditions, religious practice among the Rai of eastern Nepal was until recently characterized by low visibility. After the ‘People’s War’ at the turn of the millennium, new political ideas understand religion as one of the core features of ethnic identity. Since this reconceptualization of the ‘New Nepal’, an increase of materiality,…
How ethnic identity becomes real
Taking the material and performative world of the Nagas in Northeast India by way of example, this paper examines how identity, above all ‘ethnic’ identity, is manifested and gets incorporated into the understanding that people have of themselves. Following the shifts in identity over time by comparing ritual performances at the turn of the last century with present-day festivals in Nagaland, it is argued that the enactment of identity roles in p…
Origin and Migration Myths in the Rhetoric of Naga Independence and Collective Identity
The hill peoples commonly referred to as 'the Nagas' dwell in the northern hill ranges between the Brahmaputra and Chindwin Rivers on both sides of the present India-Myanmar (Burma) international border. Among many politically active Nagas, migration stories form an integral part of their rhetoric for constructing a collective Naga identity and for claiming an independent Naga nation. The same is true of local intellectual discourse, which is mai…
How ethnic identity becomes real
Taking the material and performative world of the Nagas in Northeast India by way of example, this paper examines how identity, above all ‘ethnic’ identity, is manifested and gets incorporated into the understanding that people have of themselves. Following the shifts in identity over time by comparing ritual performances at the turn of the last century with present-day festivals in Nagaland, it is argued that the enactment of identity roles in p…
Origin and Migration Myths in the Rhetoric of Naga Independence and Collective Identity
The hill peoples commonly referred to as 'the Nagas' dwell in the northern hill ranges between the Brahmaputra and Chindwin Rivers on both sides of the present India-Myanmar (Burma) international border. Among many politically active Nagas, migration stories form an integral part of their rhetoric for constructing a collective Naga identity and for claiming an independent Naga nation. The same is true of local intellectual discourse, which is mai…
How ethnic identity becomes real
Taking the material and performative world of the Nagas in Northeast India by way of example, this paper examines how identity, above all ‘ethnic’ identity, is manifested and gets incorporated into the understanding that people have of themselves. Following the shifts in identity over time by comparing ritual performances at the turn of the last century with present-day festivals in Nagaland, it is argued that the enactment of identity roles in p…
Increasing Materiality and Emerging Concepts of Ethnic Religious Identity
Traditionally lacking temples, mass processions, pilgrimage traditions, full time ritual specialists, or painting traditions, religious practice among the Rai of eastern Nepal was until recently characterized by low visibility. After the ‘People’s War’ at the turn of the millennium, new political ideas understand religion as one of the core features of ethnic identity. Since this reconceptualization of the ‘New Nepal’, an increase of materiality,…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)