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Tamil Dalit Art and Identity: What to Do With the drum?

SYSNO ASEP	0490044
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Tamil Dalit Art and Identity: What to Do With the drum?
Author(s)	Hons, Pavel (OU-W)_{RID, SAI, ORCID}
Number of authors	1
Source Title	South Asia Research. - : Sage - ISSN 0262-7280 Roč. 38, č. 2 (2018), s. 140-155
Number of pages	16 s.
Publication form	Print - P
Language	eng - English
Country	GB - United Kingdom
Keywords	beef consumption ; caste ; Christians ; Dalits ; dance ; drums ; ethnicity ; folk drama ; identity ; India ; Paraiyars ; Tamil Nadu
Subject RIV	AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage
OECD category	Folklore studies
R&D Projects	GA16-02363S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
Method of publishing	Limited access
Institutional support	OU-W - RVO:68378009
UT WOS	000445671900003
EID SCOPUS	85046686798
DOI	10.1177/0262728018767021
Annotation	Based mainly on printed sources in Tamil, as well as interviews with Dalit activists, this article seeks to map current divergent attitudes of Dalits towards folklore and especially towards the drum. While most activists argue for the rejection of drumming as a symbol of oppression and untouchability, some try to use it as a means of mobilisation. Others speak in favour of the resignification of the instrument and its protection and preservation as a part of their cultural legacy, which they consider to be different from the mainstream. The article also sets out to correlate these attitudes with the ideology of the eradication of caste and points to the ensuing dilemmas connected with emphasising caste-based identities.
Workplace	Oriental Institute
Contact	Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950
Year of Publishing	2019
Electronic address	https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0262728018767021

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