Everyday heritaging: Sino-Muslim literacy adaptation and alienation

IF 1.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI:10.1515/ijsl-2022-0058
Ibrar Bhatt, Heng Wang
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Abstract What we in this article describe as “Sino-Muslim heritage literacies” have existed in China for as long as there have been Muslims in the region (since the 7th century according to the best evidence). The community’s religious and heritage literacy practices can incorporate a systematic Arabic representation of Chinese, systems of Chinese characters representing Arabic pronunciation, and more contemporary digitalised manifestations of heritage literacy in everyday life. Using a social practice approach to literacy, this paper reports on multi-generational interviews, artefact collection, and ethnographic observations with two families in Xi’an (Shaanxi, China) to explore how heritage literacy practices maintain a presence in Sino-Muslim life through traditional systems of community and religious education and contemporary social and material networks. We discuss what these empirical cases reveal about literacies in Sino-Muslim religious life, with respect to how heritage is adapted or diminished across generations. We also argue that it is crucial to situate Sino-Muslim heritage literacy in spaces beyond rigid and state-defined ethnic and religious discourses which tend to confine the identity of Sino-Muslims into officially designated categories. Doing so, we contend, has useful theoretical and methodological import, and can shed light on inquiry about heritage literacy in other minority settings.
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日常传承:中国穆斯林文化的适应与异化
摘要我们在本文中所描述的“中国穆斯林遗产”在中国存在的时间与该地区有穆斯林的时间一样长(根据最好的证据,自7世纪以来)。社区的宗教和遗产扫盲实践可以包括汉语的系统阿拉伯语表示、代表阿拉伯语发音的汉字系统,以及日常生活中遗产扫盲的更现代数字化表现。本文采用社会实践的扫盲方法,对西安(中国陕西)的两个家庭进行了多代访谈、文物收集和民族志观察,以探索遗产扫盲实践如何通过传统的社区和宗教教育体系以及当代的社会和物质网络在中国穆斯林生活中保持存在。我们讨论了这些实证案例揭示了中国穆斯林宗教生活中的文学,以及遗产是如何在几代人之间适应或减少的。我们还认为,至关重要的是,将中国穆斯林的文化遗产置于僵化和国家定义的种族和宗教话语之外的空间,这些话语往往将中国穆斯林身份限制在官方指定的类别中。我们认为,这样做具有有用的理论和方法论意义,可以为其他少数民族环境中的遗产识字问题提供线索。
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International Journal of the Sociology of Language
International Journal of the Sociology of Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) is dedicated to the development of the sociology of language as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other, contributing thereby to the growth of language-related knowledge, applications, values and sensitivities. Five of the journal''s annual issues are topically focused, all of the articles in such issues being commissioned in advance, after acceptance of proposals. One annual issue is reserved for single articles on the sociology of language. Selected issues throughout the year also feature a contribution on small languages and small language communities.
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