Termin:
29.06.2010
18:00
A Hakhun Tangsa Festival in Assam, India
A stage for presenting a new multi-faceted identity
The Tangsas are a small ethnic group, related to the Nagas, living in north-east India. In recent years, rapid changes have occurred to their lifestyles as a result of migration down from the hills and conversion to Christianity. The newly converted Christian Tangsas had initially believed that religion could suffice as culture, but many have realised now that it cannot help them secure their (ethnic) identity. The past two decades have seen efforts to recover or reinvent their own traditions, and to re-package their "magined" traditional culture as a component of their new modern Christian image.
Annual village festivals are very good sites to witness these processes at first hand. Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh, PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Göttingen, Germany, takes a closer look at one village festival organized by the Hakhun Tangsas.
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