Dissertation Research: Ritual Identity and Role Conflict in South India

论文研究：印度南部的仪式认同和角色冲突

• 批准号: 9520195
• 负责人: Bruce Knauft
• 金额: $ 1.08万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-08-01 至 1997-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9520195&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Ritual; Identity; Role

This project involves the dissertation research of a student from Emory University. The study involves the tension between ideology and behavioral practices in a community of religious practitioners in a city of south India. Practitioners of this sect sacrifice their male reproductive organs to their religion, cross-dressing and conducting religious rites to confer fertility upon their patrons who hire them to conduct religious rituals. The efficacy of the rituals is spiritually connected to the practitioner's renunciation of their own sexuality Preliminary research has shown that a portion of the religious practitioners act as commercial sex workers Using a combination of surveys and intensive interviews as well as ethnographic observation, the student will examine the tension between the sexual renunciation and the income-producing practices of individual members of the community as these affect their social status. This project is important because it increases knowledge about this important region of the world, as well as advances our understanding of basic processes relating community social status, personal income and ritual purity in this non-Western setting.

本项目涉及埃默里大学一名学生的论文研究。 该研究涉及意识形态和行为实践之间的紧张关系，在一个社区的宗教从业者在印度南部的一个城市。 该教派的信徒为宗教牺牲男性生殖器官，变装并举行宗教仪式，以使雇用他们进行宗教仪式的赞助人能够生育。 仪式的功效在精神上与从业者放弃自己的性行为有关 初步研究表明，一部分宗教从业者充当商业性工作者使用调查和密集的访谈以及人种学观察相结合，学生将研究性放弃和社区个体成员的创收做法之间的紧张关系，因为这些影响他们的社会地位。 这个项目很重要，因为它增加了对世界这一重要地区的了解，并增进了我们对这个非西方环境中与社区社会地位、个人收入和仪式纯洁性有关的基本过程的理解。