Ethnicity, Identity and Group Vitality: A Study of Burushos of Srinagar
Ethnicity, Identity and Group Vitality: A Study of Burushos of Srinagar
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10.29333/ejecs/51
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2016-06
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Musavir Ahmed
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Musavir Ahmed
该研究报告了一项调查的结果，该调查旨在了解大约 350 名布鲁索人在移居印度查谟和克什米尔邦克什米尔 125 年后仍能保持其民族身份（包括语言）的因素。该团体能够抵抗同化力量，并保持自己作为一个相对于占主导地位的克什米尔东道社会的独特实体。该研究利用了民族语言活力的实证工具，反映了该群体作为一个集体实体在民族和语言身份方面的可持续性。该研究还揭示了当地克什米尔人对团体成员的看法。团体成员的这种感知态度已被解释为它对团体的活力和身份的影响。该研究基于 50 份半结构化问卷和四次非结构化访谈。该调查问卷部分是根据联合国教科文组织（2003）在评估民族语言活力时确定的六个因素而制定的。该论文的结论是，即使在大多数可衡量因素上该群体的民族语言活力相当低，一个种族较小的移民群体也可以在同化力量中生存下来并保持其民族身份。
The study reports the findings of a survey undertaken to comprehend the factors that have enabled a group of around 350 Burushos to maintain their ethnic identity including their language after 125 years of their immigration to Kashmir in Jammu and Kashmir State of India. The group has been able to resist the assimilatory forces and has maintained itself as a distinct entity vis-a-vis the dominant Kashmiri host society. The study has drawn upon the empirical tool of ethnolinguistic vitality as a reflection of the group’s sustainability as a collective entity in terms of their ethnic as well as linguistic identity. The study also reveals the attitude of native Kashmiris towards the group as perceived by group members. This perceived attitude of the group members has been explained in terms of its bearing on the vitality and identity of the group. The study is based on 50 semi-structured questionnaires and four unstructured interviews. The questionnaire has been partly developed on the basis of six factors identified by UNESCO (2003) in the evaluation of ethnolinguistic vitality. The paper concludes that an ethnically small immigrant group can survive the assimilatory forces and maintain their ethnic identity even if the ethnolinguistic vitality of the group is quite low on most of the measurable factors.