The Nation's Tortured Body
Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora"
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- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2001
Summary
In “The Nation’s Tortured Body” Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, he focuses on the position of violence between 1849 and 1998 in the emergence of a transnational fight for Khalistan (an independent Sikh state). Axel argues that, rather than the homeland creating the diaspora, it has been the diaspo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780822326151 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0822326159 |
| Author: | Brian Keith Axel |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press |
| Imprint: | Duke University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2001 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 154mm x 233mm |
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Critics Review
“Axel poses new questions regarding regarding the relation between the diaspora and the nation - state. Focusing on the representations of bodies and cultures in cyberspace, academia, cartography, and colonial portraiture, his is the first work to use recent cultural studies and cultural anthropology approaches to intervene in transnational studies.” - Inderpal Grewal, San Francisco State University “Historical Anthropology at its best, The Nation’s Tortured Body explores the history and politics of the Sikhs in a complex, and contested, transnational context. Axel’s book evocatively charts the ways in which the crossing and marking of boundaries have shaped the foundational identities of a diasporic community, providing a graphic illustration of the multiple meanings of the idea of ‘homeland’ in our contemporary postcolonial world.” - Nicholas B. Dirks, Columbia University “ … makes an important and timely contribution to the masculinity and embodiment literature, and will provide a useful resource for those interested in issues of Sikhism and diaspora.”–ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D: SOCIETY AND SPACE, 21
Brian Keith Axel
Brian Keith Axel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore College. He is the editor of From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures, also published by Duke University Press.
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