Pub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2023.2261965
Rafi Grosglik, Nir Avieli
Food plays a central role in the construction of national and ethnic identities. This article examines the marginalization of Ashkenazi (Jews of European descent) cuisine in Israel/Palestine, despite the dominance and hegemonic status of Ashkenazi identity in Israeli society. By examining the foodways of a ‘hegemonic ethnicity’, we expand upon previous research on ethnic identities in migrant communities. By analyzing the culinary processes of adaptation, simplification, and vulgarization that East-European fare underwent in Israel/Palestine, as well as the social contexts of the centrality of the Holocaust in Israeli cosmology and the consolidation of Mizrahi identity, we explain the rise, demise (and, perhaps, revival) of Ashkenazi cuisine in this country. Drawing on ethnographic and primary historical sources, this socio-historical analysis uncovers the intermittent processes of marginalization and estrangement, as well as the dynamic and contingent nature of the de-ethnization and re-ethnization of hegemonic ethnicities’ cultural practices.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2023.2261958
Judith Beyer
ABSTRACTIn this article I argue that ‘community' is a category that is inextricably bound up with the historical development of the British empire. It was in this context that modern social theory took root, including, eventually, publications on community in anthropology and sociology that profoundly influenced nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought and that continue to shape everyday understandings of the category within and beyond academia. I first elaborate what type of work the category ‘community' was intended to do in the British empire. I then introduce two key figures who were responsible for designing, distributing and implementing two contrasting imperial theories of community. Subsequently, I sketch the migratory history of the category following the ancestors of today's so-called ‘Burmese Indians' across the Bay of Bengal from India to Burma. The final part of the article presents the repercussions ‘community' has in contemporary Myanmar, drawing on recent legislation around ‘race and religion’ as well as my own ethnographic data from religious processions of ethno-religious minorities who find themselves in a subaltern position vis-à-vis the Buddhist majority population and an ethnonationalist state.KEYWORDS: MyanmarempireMuslimsHinduscommunalismcommunity AcknowledgmentsI wish to thank my interlocutors in Myanmar for the faith they bestowed in me, for trusting me to tell their stories and for accepting my family and me into your homes, mosques, and temples. I also thank Felix Girke for reading and commenting on this article as well as the anonymous reviewers and the editors of History and Anthropology for their constructive feedback.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Ethnographic fieldwork in Yangon took place between 2012 and 2020 (a total of 15 months). In addition to participant observation, I collected the life histories and genealogies of my main interlocutors, legal documentation, statistical information, and newspaper articles, and I followed all my interlocutors on social media. Moreover, I consulted colonial-era documents compiled by state officials and housed in the India Office Records, that is, the archives of the East India Company (1600–1858), the Board of Control (1784–1858), the India Office (1858–1947) and the Burma Office (1937–1948), nowadays all located in the British Library in London. I have profited from Mandy Sadan’s meticulously researched A Guide to Colonial Sources on Burma (Citation2008), in which she has compiled extensive lists of references from all four archives, with a specific focus on what she calls ‘minority histories’.2 These first encounters would always happen in the English language as people assumed that I would not be able to understand Burmese, being a ‘Westerner’. The noteworthy part is that the person would choose the first person plural (‘We are … ’) even when it was just the two of us speaking.3 I do not recapitulate the vast li
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Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2023.2261972
Kyle Olson, Christina Luke
ABSTRACTDuring the 1960s, the scope of field archaeology in the Middle East transformed dramatically, driven by foreign aid funded dam-led regional development projects. The paradigm of river-basin salvage, intimately connected to dam projects first developed in the US Southeast during the Great Depression, was exported alongside the dam-building expertise, but with unanticipated results. Rather than creating a worldwide system of emergency archaeology to mitigate the threats posed to heritage by the global project of modernization, the Decade of Development resulted in archaeologists becoming consultants in irrigation, education, and finance – key prerequisites to the emergence of today’s dominant modalities of the linkage between archaeology and development centred on regulatory compliance fieldwork and the encouragement of cultural tourism.KEYWORDS: Archaeologydevelopmentdamsforeign aidtechnical assistance Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 It should be noted that while many of these organizations, USAID in particular, presented their work as neutral or benevolent endeavors, there was always an embedded economic interest – what has recently been called ‘Aid for Profit’ (see Khastagir Citation2021) – insofar as they aimed to open new markets to American firms, whether as sources of raw materials and cheap labor, or as consumer bases for American-produced manufactured goods. This legacy has continued down to the present in many cases (see e.g., Attewell Citation2023; Norris Citation2021; Svitych Citation2023).2 ‘Concerning the Preservation of Cultural Property Endangered by Public or Private Works,’ 19 November 1968, https://www.unesco.org/en/legal-affairs/recommendation-concerning-preservation-cultural-property-endangered-public-or-private-works; see also Meskell on this subject (Citation2018, 46).3 In Turkey, the salvage mandate was de facto established in 1993 but not de jure until the 2000s (Özdoğan and Eres Citation2016, 66–67) and in Iran in 1988 (Sardari Citation2016; Citation2021).4 The Unified Development of the Khuzestan Region, 28 Aug. 1958, [Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library, Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library] P[apers of] D[avid E.] L[ilienthal], S[ubseries] 18C [1955–1958], box 409. https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/MC148_c03234.5 ‘The Unified Development of the Khuzestan Region,’ 1–3.6 Donald Wilber to David E. Lilienthal, 1 December 1958, PDL S-18C, box 409.7 ‘The Oriental Institute Archaeological Newsletters, Oct 15, 1950-Mar 11, 1973: Robert McCormick Adams, Iran,’ 388–390, 30 January 1961. https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/archeological-newsletters.8 Leo Anderson to Robert Braidwood, 30 July 1959, Directors Correspondence. Records. [Box 287, Folder 09], I[nstitute] [for the] S[tudy] [of] A[ncient] C[ultures] M[useum] A[rchives] at the U[niversity] of C[hicago].9 Robert McCormick Adams, 26 May 1994, Smit
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Pub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2023.2261966
Paulien Broens
By employing a historical ethnographic method in approaching Sukuma chiefdoms as spaces of medicinal rule, this article argues that the basis of the functioning and the prevalent well-being of these very chiefdoms lied in the duality and interconnectedness of ntemi (male) and ngole (female) as interdependent figures. Contrary to this observation that will be made, within works on Sukuma – and additionally more broadly across ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa – there has been a male-biased assumption that the singular figurehead who was foundational to exercising medicinal rule within the chiefdoms studied, is the male chief. This assumption was based on decades of colonialism and (mis)understanding of chieftaincy power systems. The article counters this male-biased assumption by placing the gendered nature of medicinal rule in the chiefdom centre-stage and by radically questioning the lack of writing present on female figureheads. A case study of the Busiya chiefdom in Shinyanga region of Northern Tanzania will illustrate the intrinsic connection between the ntemi (chief) and the ngole (queen) in facilitating the continuing functioning of the chiefdom throughout ever-changing circumstances.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2023.2249478
Sumit K. Mandal
ABSTRACTThis article examines an emerging historical narrative that invokes an exclusivist Malay-Islamic identity in Malaysia through a sacred geography centred on Aceh in Indonesia. The examination is located against the growing sacralisation of space across the world and its often contentious if not violent political outcomes. It considers the role of scholarship on sacred geographies in the face of output on the same subject by an informal expert – a person working outside of established institutional frameworks. The article focuses on the writings of Radzi Sapiee, a Malaysian informal expert who advances an exclusivist Malay-Islamic identity based on field observations, scholarly works, and inner wisdom. His partially completed book series constitutes an autobiographical return to Aceh and articulates a transnational geography of meaning that consolidates the exclusivist identity within the already racialised politics of Malaysia by further grounding it in space and time.KEYWORDS: Geography of meaningexclusivist Malay-Islamic identityinformal expertscholarship on sacred geographiesAcehMalaysiakeramat (Muslim gravesite-shrine) AcknowledgementsThis article grew out of a fellowship and workshop at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden, the Netherlands, in August and September 2017, and the conversations and unstinting support of Marieke Bloembergen and David Kloos. The second part of the article includes in much revised form a paper delivered at the workshop ‘Circulating the Bay of Bengal, Miraculously: Translating Wonder and Travel in Southeast Asia’ organized by the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre in Singapore in February 2017. I am grateful to Teren Sevea for inviting me to this meeting and his unfailing encouragement. I thank Dag Yngvesson for his careful reading and detailed comments of a draft and two anonymous reviewers whose insights helped to better frame and contextualize the argument.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 ‘Sesi bicara di DBP – Mengenali Kepustakaan Ali Hasjmy,’ http://merahsilu.blogspot.com/2019/02/bicara-di-dbp-mengenali-kepustakaan-ali.html.2 The blog is titled ‘Catatan Si Merah Silu [Notes of Merah Silu]’ and can be accessed through the following URL: http://merahsilu.blogspot.com/.3 Thailand is the only country in this list that was not colonized.4 These were Monash University Malaysia, University College Sedaya International, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia), and the University of Oxford.5 The Hikayat Mareskalek (Story of Mareskalek) written by Abdullah al-Misri in the early nineteenth century tells of a European governor-general who in a fit of vanity took the title Susuhunan, an honorific used to address the nine saints who are said to have converted Java’s population to Islam. He is haunted by a visit in his dreams by one of the said saints and decides, as a result, to make penance
摘要本文探讨了一种新兴的历史叙事，通过以印度尼西亚亚齐为中心的神圣地理，在马来西亚唤起了一种排他的马来-伊斯兰身份。这项研究的背景是世界范围内日益增长的太空神圣化，以及它经常引起争议(如果不是暴力的话)的政治结果。它考虑了在一个非正式专家——一个在既定体制框架之外工作的人——就同一主题发表的成果面前，关于神圣地理的学术研究的作用。本文聚焦于马来西亚非正式专家Radzi Sapiee的著作，他基于实地观察、学术著作和内心智慧，提出了一种排外的马来-伊斯兰身份认同。他部分完成的系列书籍构成了对亚齐的自传式回归，并阐明了一种跨国地理的意义，通过进一步在空间和时间上扎根，巩固了马来西亚已经种族化的政治中的排他性身份。本文源于2017年8月和9月在荷兰莱顿的荷兰皇家东南亚和加勒比研究所(KITLV)举办的一个奖学金和研讨会，以及Marieke Bloembergen和David Kloos的对话和慷慨支持。文章的第二部分包含了一篇在2017年2月新加坡那烂陀-斯里维加亚中心举办的研讨会上发表的论文，该研讨会的主题是“奇迹般地循环孟加拉湾:翻译东南亚的奇迹和旅行”。我感谢Teren Sevea邀请我参加这次会议，并一直给予鼓励。我要感谢Dag Yngvesson对一份草稿的仔细阅读和详细评论，以及两位匿名审稿人，他们的见解有助于更好地构建和背景化论点。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。注1“Sesi bicara di DBP - Mengenali Kepustakaan Ali Hasjmy”http://merahsilu.blogspot.com/2019/02/bicara-di-dbp-mengenali-kepustakaan-ali.html.2该博客题为“Catatan Si Merah Silu”，可透过以下网址浏览:http://merahsilu.blogspot.com/.3泰国是此名单中唯一未被殖民的国家这些大学分别是马来西亚莫纳什大学、塞达亚国际大学学院、马来西亚国立大学和牛津大学。阿卜杜拉·米斯里在19世纪早期写的《马列斯卡莱克的故事》(Hikayat Mareskalek)讲述了一位欧洲总督出于虚荣，取了苏苏南(Susuhunan)的头衔，这是对九位据说使爪哇人口皈依伊斯兰教的圣人的尊称。他在梦中被其中一位圣人的来访所困扰，因此，他决定去每位圣人的墓地朝圣，以此来赎罪我在这篇文章中主要关注穆斯林，但众所周知，keramat吸引了不同信仰的人。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2023.2249474
Marieke Bloembergen
ABSTRACT Starting from sites of yogic and Buddhist learning connecting Indonesia and India this article explores the politics, practices, transformation, dissemination and uses of knowledge on yoga and meditation in late colonial and postcolonial Indonesia, and their relation to moral geographies of Greater India. It follows, across (violent) regime changes, the trajectories of learning of a number of self-made experts and entrepreneurs in this field who were also involved in the postcolonial Buddhist reform movement in Indonesia: the Chinese Indonesians Souw Tjiang Poh (b.1929), better known, also as yoga guru, under his Buddhist name Yogamurti; and his meditation teacher, Tee Boan An (1923–2002), who, as Ashin Jinarakkhita, is more famous as motor behind the Buddhist reform movement in Indonesia from the 1950s onwards. Yogamurti's and Tee Boan An's histories of ‘yogic’ transformation reach back to ‘alternative’ spiritual reform trajectories of the Theosophical Society of late colonial times, and continue, across decolonization and the violent regime change of 1965, to those of the hippie trail of the 1970s. These spiritual and ‘Indic’ religious revivalist entrepreneurs provide alternative perspectives to the grand narratives of political history, yoga, ‘Indian religion’ or ‘Greater India’. Across regime changes, their paths crossed and they exchanged knowledge, thereby changing and reshaping social hierarchies as they moved within an ‘alternative present’ in which spirituality seemed a way to move forward to ‘alternative futures’.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2023.2248165
E. Çaylı, Erol Sağlam
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2023.2237064
Irfan Ahmad
ABSTRACT This essay is about how Indian anthropology-sociology has historically theorized Islam and Muslims. In it, I demonstrate how anthropologists’ discourse on Islam and the majoritarian Hindu discourse on nation – Muslims being its constitutive other – dovetail into each other. Three main catalogues through which anthropology has dealt with Muslims are: silence, alienness and erasure. Against anthropology’s self-perception as the most reflexive discipline, I argue how Indian anthropology has been intertwined with nation-state as both an ideology and a set of practices. I also identify connections between symbolic violence of anthropology-sociology manifest in the othering of Islam and anti-Muslim political violence in postcolonial India. Discussing influential texts, schools of thoughts, departments, individuals, institutions, professional association in a framework that comparatively alludes to the ‘anomaly’ of Jews vis-à-vis German anthropology, this essay also charts out a different genealogy of anthropology in India, one that remains hushed in the regnant accounts. In so doing, it maps the discipline’s trajectory from its moment of formation to the present. One key aim of the essay is to unveil the theory behind methodological nationalism to discuss the (im)possibility of writing an alternative anthropology-sociology of India.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-03DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2023.2248164
Erol Sağlam
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