of the agitation can be reduced to 'communal' differences. The dissenation shows that the historical transfonnation of the political economy of Ladakh and the production of certain normative frames of identification and justification offer important insights into the conununalization of politics in the region, and suggests that such an approach would benefit understandings of 'identity' politics and 'ethnic' conflict elsewhere.
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NEWS
Colloquium "Sac red Landscape of the Tibetan HimaJaya", May 25·27, 1998, Heidelberg,
Intemationales Wissenschaftsforum der UniversitlH Heidelberg, Hauptstrasse 249.
3rd Meet ing of th e European Cooperation Project on Himalayan Languages
June 4·5, 1998, Heidelberg South Asia Institute, Heidelbcrg
The topics will be "Ritual language and poetry" and "Speech Ac t Participant marking in the verb".
Please contact:
Manine Mazaudon
LACITO/CNRS, 44, rue de l'Amiral Mouchez, Paris, 75014, FRANCE e·mail: mazaudon@vjf.cnrsJr
Manin Gaenzle
SUdasien·lnstilul, Im Neuenheimer Feld 330, 69120 Hcidelberg, GERMANY e·mail: Manin.Gaenszle@urz.uni.heidelbcrg.de
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First Workshop or the Himalayan Stud ies Network Meudon 1998
Representation or the Selrand Representation or the Other in the Himalayas: Space, History, Culture
Suscribers to the EB HR are invited to ou r first annual thematic worshop which will be held on 25lh-26th September 1 998 at the CNRS. t pI. A.
Briand. 92195 Meudon, FRANCE.
Please contact Pascale DoUfus and Marie Lecomle-Tilouine, UPR 299.
e-mail: himal.reS@cnrs-bellevudr
Friday, 2S September 1998 9:30 Welcome
9:50 Karl.Heim: Kr!imer : The janajati and the Nepali state: Aspects of Identity and Integration
10:30 Franck BernMe : Music Ilnd identity among the Newars 11: 10 Coffee bnak
11:30 GiI Oaryn: Self community and land in a Bahun village 12:10 Lunch and visit oflhe Ctntre d'Erudts Himo.(ayenflU.
2:00 Ben Campbell : Identity. and power in a conflkwal environment (Tamang) 2:40 Eberhard Bcrg : OumJi and Zhindak : Local Festival Ptrfonn:mce IlId PalrOflage 15. aucial
source
of She!p3 identity3: 10 Joanna Pbrr : Ethnic markers in local and national comparison 3:50 Cofflt bnak
4:20 Joanne Moller : Insiders and Outsiders: Community and Identity in Kumaon.
Nonh India
5:00 Martin S(lkefeld : Selves and
Others:
Representing Multiplicities of Diffelence in Gilgit, Northern Areas of Pakistan5:40 General discussion (Ste~·e Brown) Satunby 26 September 1998
9:30 M:u1ijn van Btc'k : The An of Representation: Oomcsticatinglldakhi Identity 10:10 Ingun B. Arnundsen : National identity as reflected in the Bhutanese architecture
10:50 Coffrr bnak
11 :10 WiIliam Douglas: The Khasia ~inva5ions~ in the Gopahuaja vamsavali 11:50 Michael Hull:-Brahrnan meets Kiranti: reflections on BP Koirala's novel 'Sumnima'·
12:30 David Gel1ner : 'From Cultural Hierarchies to a Hierarchy of Muhiculturalisms:
The Case of the Newars'.
13: 10 Cocktail
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