Publicomos

Réf.

42859

Type

conference item

Titre

Adivasi Identity, Haunting and Reconciliation- Negotiating Cultural Memory and Displacement

Langues

English

Auteurs

Gajare, Rashmi / Taru, /

Lieu de publication

Charenton-le-Pont

Pays de publication

France

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS

Date

2018

Titre de conférence

ICOMOS 19th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium "Heritage and Democracy"

Lieu de conférence

New Delhi, India

Date de conférence

13-14th December 2017

Mots-clés

identity / reconciliation / human rights / ethnography / segregation / minorities / memory / public awareness / education / ethnology / oral tradition / conflicts

Pays mentionnés

India

Résumé en anglais

Palimpsest and ‘ghost’ have been an integral part of studies on cultural memory, erasureand its ‘haunting’. Be it Jacques Derrida’s use of ‘spectral bodies’ to analyse the ‘phantomatic’ in ideology or Foucault’s unraveling of ‘haunting’ in his interview, “Film and Popular Memory,” it isaccepted that pieces of identity and memory remain as imprints that drive and influence the individual or the community experiencing such ‘haunting.’The Adivasi way of life is pluralistic, where each community has its own dynamic oral history, and allegorical understanding of their habitats. Their idea of the sacred, like the sarna, often herald to spiritsof their ancestors and derive the ‘sacred’ from the living history, their cultural identity from their life in the forests and now, with increasing loss of habitat (Jal, Jangal, Jameen), memory. This research explores the nuances of the Adivasi identity and the ramifications of displacement on their collective memory by exploring a palimpsest of the Adivasi way of life as it survives and morphs,despite an era of displacement and erasure and as they struggle for acknowledgment and survival. While conflict ruptures familiar systems of living, cultural memory is a representative form that assistsin attempts to recreate a past and foster reconciliation of ‘identity’ in the present. Utilizing ethnographic studies of grassroot organizations, an analysis of contemporary Adivasi literatureand individual interviews of Adivasis involved in the advocacy efforts in Bihar and Jharkhand, this research seeks to map the ways the Adivasis and the grass-root organizations negotiate the conflictridden landscape to evolve as a society even as they seek to legitimize, preserve and celebrate critical aspects of what is self-recognized (in their own literature) as a five thousand year-old ‘othered’ culture of India, often delegitimized or alienated in the face of the mainstream ideology of the time.

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Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)