从恶魔到神:为马赫沙苏尔打造一个新的形象

IF 0.9 3区社会学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Material Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-17 DOI:10.1177/13591835221116708

Moumita Sen

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摘要

这篇文章的重点是为印度神话中的“恶魔”Mahishasur打造一个新的形象，他被土著社区视为“神”和他们政治自治的捍卫者。执政的印度教民族主义政党认为，公开崇拜马哈沙苏尔的政治仪式是亵渎神灵的。在孟加拉的粘土造型师中，占主导地位的“恶魔”形象体现了高度重视的自然主义雕塑技巧;但这场运动需要一个新的仁慈形象。通过对西孟加拉邦几个村庄的这一政治仪式的图像制造者和组织者的采访，我将展示当地对男子气概、美德和政治意识形态的审美理想是如何在印度政治中这位新兴英雄的新美学形式和肖像中表达出来的。

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From demon to deity: Forging a new iconography for Mahishasur

This article focuses on the forging of a new iconography for Mahishasur, a ‘demon’ in Hindu mythology who was reclaimed by indigenous communities both as a ‘god’ and as a champion of their political autonomy. The public political ritual of venerating Mahishasur was deemed blasphemous by the Hindu nationalist party in power. Among clay-modellers of Bengal, the dominant ‘demon’ image of Mahishasur embodies the highly-valued skill of Naturalistic sculpture; but the movement needed a new benevolent image. Through interviews with image-makers and organisers of this political ritual in several villages of West Bengal, I will show how local aesthetic ideals of masculinity, virtue, and political ideology are expressed in the new aesthetic form(s) and iconographies of this emerging hero of Indian politics.

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Journal of Material Culture Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Material Culture is an interdisciplinary journal designed to cater for the increasing interest in material culture studies. It is concerned with the relationship between artefacts and social relations irrespective of time and place and aims to systematically explore the linkage between the construction of social identities and the production and use of culture. The Journal of Material Culture transcends traditional disciplinary and cultural boundaries drawing on a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, design studies, history, human geography, museology and ethnography.