VCD Crossovers : Cultural Practice, Ideas of Belonging, and Santali Popular Movies (SPECIAL ISSUE : The Bison and the Horn : Indigeneity, Performance, and the State of India)

IF 0.6 3区社会学 Q1 Arts and Humanities

Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI:10.18874/ae.73.1-2.10

M. Schleiter

引用次数: 3

Abstract

This article considers the role Santali movies play regarding the Santal indigenous group’s perceptions of their community as unified throughout India. Using participant observation I describe the differing ways people engage with these movies, which are prevalent in the Kolkata metropolis and in two villages in Assam and Odisha. I argue that the way people articulate their identity in the respective settings evolves from the specific everyday culture there, showing that this mediatized identity-building relates to the identity practice of a wider society and the political situation for Santal people. In a recent academic debate on indigeneity in South Asia, scholars discussed from a critical viewpoint the effects of calling communities “indigenous”; they see this as presupposing the conformity of their cultural identity. Based on my observations, I suggest focusing on the diversity of individuals’ understandings of their belonging as an assertive device.

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VCD交叉:文化实践，归属感的想法，和桑塔利流行电影(特刊:野牛和角:土著，表演，和印度的状态)

本文考虑了桑塔利电影在桑塔利土著群体对整个印度统一社区的看法方面所起的作用。通过参与性观察，我描述了人们参与这些电影的不同方式，这些电影在加尔各答大都市和阿萨姆邦和奥里萨邦的两个村庄很普遍。我认为，人们在各自的环境中表达自己身份的方式是从那里特定的日常文化演变而来的，这表明这种中介化的身份建构与更广泛的社会和桑塔人的政治形势的身份实践有关。在最近一次关于南亚土著的学术辩论中，学者们从批判的角度讨论了将社区称为“土著”的影响;他们认为这是他们文化认同一致性的前提。根据我的观察，我建议把重点放在个人对归属感理解的多样性上，这是一种自信的手段。

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Asian Ethnology Multiple-

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1.10

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30 weeks

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