We Were Adivasis Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled by Megan Moodie PAPERBACK

We Were AdivasisAspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe\nAuthor(s): Megan Moodie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226253046, 978-0226253046\nSynopsis\nIn We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state's relationship to \""Scheduled Tribes,\"" or adivasis - historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions. Through a deep ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, Moodie brings readers inside the creative imaginative work of these long - marginalized tribal communities. She shows how they must simultaneously affirm and refute their tribal status on a range of levels, from domestic interactions to historical representation, by relegating their status to the past: we were adivasis. Moodie takes readers to a diversity of settings, including households, tribal council meetings, and wedding festivals, to r.