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Guardians of the Land and Water : Rituals, Vulnerability, and Indigenous Belonging Among the Himalayan Mútunci

Couverture du livre « Guardians of the Land and Water : Rituals, Vulnerability, and Indigenous Belonging Among the Himalayan Mútunci » de Bentley Jenny aux éditions Editions Seismo
Résumé:

The book offers a detailed analysis of the pluriverse of an Indigenous community in the south-eastern Himalayas. It is a rare deep-dive ethnography of the Mu'tunci community - more commonly called by their exonym Lepcha - and the ontologies and strategies activated in ritualised struggles to... Voir plus

The book offers a detailed analysis of the pluriverse of an Indigenous community in the south-eastern Himalayas. It is a rare deep-dive ethnography of the Mu'tunci community - more commonly called by their exonym Lepcha - and the ontologies and strategies activated in ritualised struggles to reduce marginality and ensure a good life. Based on over a decade of interactions, the author assembles community ritual practices and performances, their actors and power relations, as well as the histories and thought-frameworks they are embedded in. She shows how Mu'tunci actors live and activate various understandings of self and the world depending on their respec- tive spatio-temporal positioning. Through the ritual lens, the author analyses vulnerability and survivance and unravels multi-modal processes of constituting belonging the place, community, and the Himalayan environment, putting the polysemic concept of Lya'ngdo'k U'ngdo'k, protectors of land and water, at the core of her analysis. Moreover, the study develops a self-reflexive approach that aims to include Indigenous world-making within an analytical framework beyond dichotomic classifications.

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