The Poetics and Politics of Practical Reason Indigenous Identity, Ritual Discourse, and the Postcolonial State in the Northern Nilgiris (South India)

IF 0.6 3区社会学 Q1 Arts and Humanities

Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI:10.18874/AE.73.1-2.07

Ulrich Demmer

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Abstract

This article explores how in the northern Nilgiris of South India the postcolonial state and indigenous adivasi communities imagine, perform, and negotiate ideas of a good life in ritual and political discourse, that is, how they articulate practical reason. I analyze the politics of ethics and how indigenous Jenu Kurumba and Sholega adivasi groups on the one hand and the state of Tamil Nadu on the other construct and perform their identity with respect to moral ontologies and ideas of a good life. The postcolonial Nilgiris thus appear as a political field where various articulations of ethical worlds compete with and challenge one another, while at the same time the collective actors seek to gain hegemony over other imaginations of a good life.

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北尼尔吉里斯(南印度)的实践理性、土著认同、仪式话语与后殖民国家的诗学与政治

本文探讨了在南印度的北尼尔吉里斯，后殖民国家和土著原住民社区如何在仪式和政治话语中想象、表现和协商美好生活的想法，也就是说，他们如何阐明实践理由。我分析了伦理政治，以及土著Jenu Kurumba和Sholega addivasi群体以及泰米尔纳德邦如何在道德本体论和美好生活理念方面构建和执行他们的身份。因此，后殖民尼尔吉里斯作为一个政治领域出现，在这里，各种道德世界的表达相互竞争和挑战，同时，集体行动者寻求对其他美好生活想象的霸权。

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Asian Ethnology Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Asian Ethnology (ISSN 1882–6865) is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal registered as an Open Access Journal with all the contents freely downloadable. Please read the information on our open access and copyright policies. A list of monographs that were published under the journal''s former names, Folklore Studies and Asian Folklore Studies, appear here. Asian Ethnology is dedicated to the promotion of scholarly research on the peoples and cultures of Asia. It began in China as Folklore Studies in 1942 and later moved to Japan where its name was changed to Asian Folklore Studies. It is edited and published at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan, with the cooperation of Boston University. Asian Ethnology seeks to deepen understanding and further the pursuit of knowledge about the peoples and cultures of Asia. We wish to facilitate intellectual exchange between Asia and the rest of the world, and particularly welcome submissions from scholars based in Asia. The journal presents formal essays and analyses, research reports, and critical book reviews relating to a wide range of topical categories, including: -narratives, performances, and other forms of cultural representation -popular religious concepts -vernacular approaches to health and healing -local ecological/environmental knowledge -collective memory and uses of the past -cultural transformations in diaspora -transnational flows -material culture -museology -visual culture