Holy Cows and Constitutional Nationalism in Nepal.
The way in which the Nepali state has framed over the centuries the legal framework protecting the cow--Hinduism's sacred animal--illuminates the intimate relationship between state-framed nation-building and the management of sociocultural diversity in Nepal, the only other Hindu-majority state in...
| Publicado en: | Asian Ethnology Vol. 80; no. 1; pp. 93 - 120 |
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Nanzan University
2021
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