東京外国語大学AA研・SASC共催フォーラム
日時
2025年6月15日（日） 14:00-15:30
会場
東京外国語大学アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所（AA研）304号室
Speaker
Sumahan Bandyopadhyay（スモハン・ボンドパッダエ）, Visiting Professor, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan, and Professor & Head, Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, India
Title
Sacred Hill and a Benevolent God: Cultural Innovation, Performance, Identity Among the Santal People of Eastern India
コメンテーター
澁谷俊樹（日本女子大学）
司会
外川昌彦（AA研）
使用言語
英語
共催
東京外国語大学アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所（AA研）、
AA研基幹研究人類学「社会性の人類学的探求：トランスカルチャー状況と寛容/不寛容の機序」、
東京外国語大学南アジア研究センター（SASC）
Abstract:
The present paper delineates a sacred narrative in circulation among the Santals surrounding Logu Buru hill of Jharkhand and its ritual enactment through a cultural innovation in recent years to understand the process of reassertion of tribal identity in a context in which heterogenous forces work to segmentize the traditional social formations. The Santal is the largest tribal community in eastern India and third largest tribal group in India. In spite of their dispersion over a large territory, they always show some similarities in language, social structure and customs which they try to protect and preserve with regular socio-political mobilizations, at times infusing new meanings and understanding to the 'prior discourse' through 'cultural enactment'. By creating new ethical and cultural ethos they seem to reaggregate the past which informs their present celebration of tribal identity linked to the indigenous pedagogies of communications built upon the symbolic manifestation and identification with hills, forests, streams and landscape. The performances which embody the sacralization of geography act as cultural mnemonic offering greater visibility and occasions for participation connected with multiple nodes of their existence as a distinctly identified community. The paper argues that the new modalities of representations which have several entanglements with other forms of expressions continue to characterize the dynamics of Santal society in particular and of the tribal societies in general in contemporary India. At the intersections of this exercise, their interactions with the state and fellow citizens unfold the negotiations which can inform us in understanding the state practices and the directions of state policies in world's largest democracy represented by India.
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