Decolonising feasts of merit: reasoning Marān Kasā from a Tangkhul Naga perspective

IF 0.9 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES

Asian Ethnicity Pub Date : 2022-06-17 DOI:10.1080/14631369.2022.2089093

Shaokhai Mayirnao, Sinalei Khayi

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Feasts of Merit is a cultural phenomenon practised by several communities specific to their customs, traditions, and culture in different parts of the world. Whether or not the terminology is a colonial construct and/or a misnomer remains contestable. In the Tangkhul Naga context, the translation or notion of marān kasā as mere Feasts of Merit is a misnomer. Feast (of Merit) is only constitutive of marān kasā; thus, a part of a whole cannot be said to be the whole. This paper attempts to emancipate marān kasā from the coloniality of Feasts of Merit by debunking the colonial metanarrative; through the enunciation of socio-religious significance and culturo-educational functions of marān kasā that are manifestations of a deeper Tangkhul Naga, thus Naga, philosophy.

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去殖民化的功德盛宴:从唐库尔·那迦的角度推理Marān

功德节是一种文化现象，由世界不同地区的几个社区根据其习俗、传统和文化进行实践。这个术语是否是殖民主义的结构和/或用词不当仍然存在争议。在Tangkhul Naga的语境中，将marān kasā翻译或概念为仅仅的功绩盛宴是一个用词不当的说法。盛宴（功德）只构成了marān kasā；因此，不能说整体的一部分就是整体。本文试图通过对殖民元叙事的揭穿，将马从《功德宴》的殖民主义中解放出来；通过阐明marān kasā的社会宗教意义和文化教育功能，这些都是更深层次的唐胡尔-纳迦哲学的表现。

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Asian Ethnicity PHYSIOLOGY-

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2.80

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期刊介绍： In the twenty-first century ethnic issues have assumed importance in many parts of the world. Until recently, questions of Asian ethnicity and identity have been treated in a balkanized fashion, with anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists and others publishing their studies in single-discipline journals. Asian Ethnicity provides a cross-disciplinary, international venue for the publication of well-researched articles about ethnic groups and ethnic relations in the half of the world where questions of ethnicity now loom largest. Asian Ethnicity covers any time period, although the greatest focus is expected to be on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.