VCD Crossovers: Cultural Practice, Ideas of Belonging, and Santali Popular Movies

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“…The village settings, house structures, clothes, and language used in the film markedly differ from those found in other Santali speaking areas in northern Jharkhand, northern West Bengal and Assam. Unlike Santals or other tribal groups in central India, who view these (modern) films as part of a continuity of regional tradition, Schleiter claims that Santals in Assam, who also view these films regularly, take it not as ‘their’ tradition, but as part of an overarching ‘imagined community’ that stretches all the way down to central India (Schleiter 2014, 190).…”

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Structure, Ideology, Distribution: The Dual as Honorific in Santali

Choksi

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article draws on Judith T. Irvine's over two decades of work on ideologies of honorification to investigate and analyze the historical transformation of the use of the dual pronominal form in Santali, an Austro‐Asiatic language spoken in eastern India. In Santali, the dual form is employed for single referents (both for the speaker and the addressee) during interactions restricted to affines of adjacent generations. However, in recent years the dual has also started to be used as a deferential honorific in a generalized sense, regardless of the kinship relation between interactants. The new usage has been driven by several factors, including the increasing exposure to education in the dominant Indo‐Aryan vernaculars such as Bengali and Hindi, which use generalized honorifics, as well as movements that have aligned the use of such honorifics with projects for Santal autonomy centered around the spread of a distinct script for the language. The article argues that debates in the community around the notions of tradition and modernity, cultural and ethnic affiliation, and changing ideas of respect have shaped the ideological field conditioning the use and distribution of the honorific dual in Santali.

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Section: Popular Film and Pathways Of Circulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Structure, Ideology, Distribution: The Dual as Honorific in Santali

Choksi

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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VCD Crossovers: Cultural Practice, Ideas of Belonging, and Santali Popular Movies

Cited by 1 publication

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Structure, Ideology, Distribution: The Dual as Honorific in Santali

Structure, Ideology, Distribution: The Dual as Honorific in Santali

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