Conversions, population movements and ethno-cultural landscape in the Assam–Meghalaya borderlands

Ramirez, Philippe

doi:10.1080/14631369.2015.1091650

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“…Acculturées à des degrés divers à la culture dominante khasi, elles avaient pour la plupart oublié leur langue d'origine. De même, elles avaient suivi la majorité de la population autochtone lorsque celle-ci s'était massivement convertie au christianisme dans les années 1930-1950 (Ramirez 2016).…”

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Un paysage de noms : génonymes, clans et ethnicités dans l’Inde du Nord-Est

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In India, surnames are a primary criteria of status recognition. Among many populations of the northeastern region, they correspond to clans and are thus recognized as a sign of membership to a particular tribe. However, assignments and spellings are not consensual and often become the issue of controversial identity claims. The spatial distribution of surnames builds a landscape within which different actors cut their own boundaries. As ethnicity issues are at the center of northeastern politics, the matter is not negligible. The mapping of surnames and surname identifications provide many insights into identity formation processes. And more generally the surname corpuses contained in the Indian electoral rolls are a fruitful resource for social anthropology when associated with traditional fieldwork.

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