[Anthropgrad] Anthropgrad Digest, Vol 78, Issue 16

[Nicolas Peterson]

Dear Zazie

Apologies for not making your seminar but I have been at the all day CASS
Research Themes meeting.

Nic


Nicolas Peterson
Professor of Anthropology
School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Australian National University
ACT 0200
Ph: 02-61254727
Fax: 02-61252711





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>    1. Reminder - Seminar by Zazie Bowen: Manoj and Sanjay Story.
>       Friday, 24th July, 3pm. (John White)
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> Subject: [Anthropgrad] Reminder - Seminar by Zazie Bowen: Manoj and
> Sanjay Story. Friday, 24th July, 3pm.
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> Anthropology Friday Seminar Series. Semester 2, 2009. Milgate Room, AD
> Hope. Friday, 24th July, 3pm.
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> Seminar by Zazie Bowen: Manoj and Sanjay Story
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> How may children's play provide a commentary on the contexts within
> which their play is performed? In this paper I focus on a locally
> perceived hazard of Mayurbhanj (a district of Orissa) rural life: Avidya
> Tantrik/witchcraft attacks and how a group of children negotiate this
> risk through personal practices, social behavior and most importantly
> how this phenomenon finds expression in their play.
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> First I describe a fictional drama authored, enacted and filmed by some
> village children. Then I relate a village incident that has a mirroring
> relationship to the drama that preceded it. Both revolve around a fight
> between benevolent Tantrik Gods/Goddesses and malevolent Avidya Tantriks
> and witches. I then discuss the ways in which the phenomenon of Tantra
> (benevolent Vidya and malevolent Avidya Tantra) preoccupies Mayurbhanj
> village communities as part of their conceptual paradigm and its
> particular concern for children who are the primary targets of Avidya
> Tantrik and witchcraft attacks. Then I place this conceptual paradigm
> within its ethnographic setting and discuss the resultant social
> exclusions and inclusions in play and non-play life. Finally I contrast
> and discuss two analytical paradigms, structural-functionalist and
> creativity-transformational, as ways of understanding the central
> concern of this paper: what can children's play tell us about children's
> distinctive engagements with the life-world of their village?
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