民族概念の戦略的利用に関する一考察

ナガの「先任民族化」を事例に

抄録

The aim of this paper is to examine the strategic use of national/ethnic concepts and its background by using the case of the Naga independence movement in Northeast India. More precisely, I analyze the independence movement in terms of the nation and the recent international activity in terms of the indigenous people of the Nagas that have been defined as tribes. Using this case, it becomes clear that the national/ethnic concepts such as “tribe, ” “nation, ” and “indigenous people” are not the essentialistic definitions of the group, but rather the strategic concepts influenced by the international situation or the ideology of the times.