Santal indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, and the politics of representation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3616875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marine Carrin (0000-0001-8959-018X, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1438-1463 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x2100024x |
| OpenAlex | W4301373440 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 6 |
Using different archives, I show how indigeneity was constructed by the Santal themselves during the second half of the nineteenth century, through various figures such as rebels and prophets. This has produced a Santal indigenous knowledge at the interface of orality and writing, revolving around two dimensions-an emergent historical consciousness and a feeling of shared identity, which still informs Adivasi resistance today, enabling them to voice assertion over natural resources. The sacralization of the landscape through pilgrimages and ritual commemorations entails the liberation of formerly encompassed identities, allowing the subaltern communities a certain visibility in the public sphere. Providing a new imagining against dispossession and memory loss, indigenous knowledge, which combines multi-scripturality and ritual innovations, becomes a resource for politics of representation as well as of a common Santal identity
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Feeling · Identity (music · Indigenous · Liminality · Linguistics · Literacy · Negation · Orality · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Representation (politics · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Water Governance and Infrastructure
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |