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Title: “Tribes” in the Ethnography of Nepal: Some Comments on a Debate
Language of title: English
Author/Creator: Lionel Caplan
One Sentence Summary: The article is concerned with the tribe versus non-tribe dichotomy in the context of Nepal.

Description: Creator’s Description: After reviewing scholarly debates regarding the usefulness of distinguishing, descriptively or analytically, the differences between “tribes” and “castes”/ “peasants,” the paper proposes a contrast between these two categories in terms of their relationship to land. Thus, whereas most “caste-peasants” in east Nepal enjoyed land under raikar tenure – a form of freehold – which could be bought and sold, the “tribal” Limbus traditionally possessed theirs under what was termed kipat – which was inalienable and acquired only through kinship rights. Kipat was thus more than an economic asset; it was the basis of their identity as a people. In this sense they shared a conception of land as held by countless indigenous or “tribal” people in south Asia and elsewhere. (Lionel Caplan 2010-02-01)

Publisher Place: Kirtipur, Nepal
Publisher: Center for Nepal and Asian Studies
Normalized publisher place: Kathmandu
Publisher country: Nepal
Publisher URL: http://www.cnastu.org.np/
Published Date: 1990-07
URL: http://www.thlib.org/static/reprints/contributions/CNAS_17_02_04.pdf
Classification: Tibetan and Himalayan -- Journals -- Journals Focused on Regions -- Nepal -- Contributions to Nepalese Studies -- (1990) Vol. 17, no. 2
Cultural Coverage: Nepal
Language: English
Source: Contributions to Nepalese Studies
Source Editor: D. P. Bhandari
Source Type: Journal
Source Volume: 17
Source Number: 2
Source Page Numbers: 129-145
ISBN/ISSN: 3767574

Means of availability: Available online as a PDF within the Tibetan & Himalayan Library's bibliographic database.

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Resource Type: Article
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