Transgender subjects in Manipuri society have experienced cultural legitimacy as well as prejudice and therefore have had an ambiguous status from early to modern times. From their early prototypes, pheitas, to their modern counterparts, nupi sabis, transgender subjects have played vital roles in the administrative, cultural and artistic life of Manipuri society. Legitimacy as well as stigma marked their participation in social and economic life. This article traces the emergence of the nupi maanbi community, a community of man-to-woman transgender subjects and argues that the current nupi maanbi identity, embedded in this distinct community, is firmly located in the economic niche that the subjects inhabit as professionals in the increasingly popular fashion and beauty parlours in contemporary Manipur.

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曼尼普尔跨性别社区的出现：Nupi Maanbis 的案例

曼尼普里社会的跨性别主体经历了文化合法性和偏见，因此从早期到现代都具有模糊的地位。从早期原型 pheitas 到现代原型 nupi sabis，跨性别主体在曼尼普里社会的行政、文化和艺术生活中发挥了至关重要的作用。合法性和污名标志着他们参与社会和经济生活。本文追溯了 nupi maanbi 社区的出现，这是一个由男女跨性别主体组成的社区，并认为当前嵌入这个独特社区的 nupi maanbi 身份牢牢地定位于主体作为专业人士所居住的经济利基。现代曼尼普尔邦日益流行的时尚和美容院。