Bava Gor and the Myth of Makhan Devi (Butter Goddess)

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Narrative Culture Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/ncu.2023.0004

Karan Singh

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Abstract

Abstract:Siddis are a microscopic community of African Indians who are part of multiple migrations stretching over several centuries in India from numerous locations inthe East and North Africa. The myth of Bava Gor and Makhan Devi hides within it multiple contestations and adaptations in the religio-cultural landscape of Siddis through an encounter with native Hindu/Aboriginal religious beliefs. The paper seeksto study these transitions in the mythic landscape of Bava Gor and how it reflects the syncretic dynamics of Siddis’ relation with majority communities. For it, I propose to foreground interrelations between gender, ethnic, and religious identities and how these identities get transmuted through transferences between socio-political and religious spheres.

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巴瓦戈尔与牛油女神的神话

摘要:西迪人是非洲印第安人的一个微观社区，他们是几个世纪以来从东非和北非许多地方迁移到印度的多次移民的一部分。巴瓦戈和Makhan Devi的神话隐藏在其中，通过与当地印度教/土著宗教信仰的相遇，在西迪斯的宗教文化景观中存在多种争论和适应。本文试图研究巴瓦戈尔神话景观中的这些转变，以及它如何反映西迪斯与多数社区关系的综合动态。为此，我建议突出性别、种族和宗教身份之间的相互关系，以及这些身份如何通过社会政治和宗教领域之间的转移而改变。

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Narrative Culture HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.