This episode concentrates on the translation - the transformation in performance - of the U.N.'s International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9th of August) into the World Adivasi Day (Vishwa Adivasi Divas or Din) in Gujarat, specifically in the town of Chhotaudepur. Professor Arjun Rathva from MC Rathva College and Professor Gregory D. Alles from McDaniel College talk about an imagined global adivasi ('indigenous') community, ongoing legal challenges to the status...
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This episode concentrates on the translation - the transformation in performance - of the U.N.'s International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9th of August) into the World Adivasi Day (Vishwa Adivasi Divas or Din) in Gujarat, specifically in the town of Chhotaudepur. Professor Arjun Rathva from MC Rathva College and Professor Gregory D. Alles from McDaniel College talk about an imagined global adivasi ('indigenous') community, ongoing legal challenges to the status...
Episode 3. Translating Indigeneities with Bjørn Ola Tafjord
Thinking About Indigenous Religions
35 minutes
4 years ago
Episode 3. Translating Indigeneities with Bjørn Ola Tafjord
How to do research in religious studies without being too preoccupied with finding religion? How to resist the temptation of translating things categorically into religion and indigeneity? How to take seriously practices that powerful institutions try to delegitimize as ‘false religion’ or ‘primitive religion’? How to do critical research without religionizing and indigenizing practices and communities uncritically? In this episode, we meet Professor Bjørn Ola Tafjord, who describes how...
Thinking About Indigenous Religions
This episode concentrates on the translation - the transformation in performance - of the U.N.'s International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9th of August) into the World Adivasi Day (Vishwa Adivasi Divas or Din) in Gujarat, specifically in the town of Chhotaudepur. Professor Arjun Rathva from MC Rathva College and Professor Gregory D. Alles from McDaniel College talk about an imagined global adivasi ('indigenous') community, ongoing legal challenges to the status...
