Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Proposal: Adivasi Subjectivity and Sites of Reform. State, Tribe, and Drink in Jharkhand, India.

研究生Roger Begrich在Veena Das博士的指导下，将调查原住民（土著或部落人民）与印度政府之间的关系。研究将在印度贾坎德邦的两个土著社区进行为期18个月的研究，一个是城市，一个是农村。贾坎德邦是印度联邦新成立的一个邦，在原住民运动要求邦自治50多年后，于2000年11月被授予州地位。这个新的联邦国家的建立代表了印度土著人民历史上的一个重要转折点。因此，在这一特定时刻，分析政府进程与当地社区之间相互作用所产生的动态是特别有趣的。这项调查的特别重点将是阿迪瓦西的饮酒习惯，长期以来，这一直是国家改革阿迪瓦西社区的核心问题，同时也是阿迪瓦西身份的一个基本方面。研究人员将从殖民地和当代档案中收集数据，并将使用参与式制图、半结构化访谈、家庭预算分析、家庭调查和参与式观察进行民族志实地研究。他将调查构成阿迪瓦西人的国家话语和做法，通过他们的饮酒习惯，作为一个独特的人口，作为改革的目标。他还将编写一份详细的民族志，内容是在两个重点土著社区的社会和道德世界中，饮酒行为及其后果。这项研究将对培训一名社会科学家和当代社会科学研究的三个领域作出重大贡献：土著人民研究、酒精研究的跨学科领域和国家民族志。它还将有助于填补对边缘人群中药物滥用问题的细致理解的需要。因此，这项研究的结果可能有助于在印度和其他地方制定有效的公共卫生干预措施。

Graduate student Roger Begrich, under the supervision of Dr. Veena Das, will investigate the relationship between Adivasi (indigenous or tribal people) and the Indian government. Research will be conducted over an 18-month period in two Adivasi communities, one urban and one rural, in the state of Jharkhand, India. Jharkhand is a newly created state in the Indian Union, having been granted statehood in November 2000, after Adivasi movements had demanded state autonomy for more than 50 years. The creation of this new federal state represents an important turning point in the history of indigenous peoples in India. It is therefore of particular interest to analyze the dynamics ensuing from the interaction between governmental processes and local communities at this specific moment. The particular focus of this investigation will be Adivasi practices of alcohol consumption, which long have been at the center of state concerns of reforming Adivasi communities, while simultaneously a fundamental aspect of Adivasi identity. The researcher will gather data from colonial and contemporary archives, and will conduct an ethnographic field study, using participatory mapping, semi-structured interviews, household budget analysis, household suervys, and participant observation. He will investigate state discourses and practices that constitute Adivasis, through their drinking practices, as a distinct population, as targets of reform. He also will compile a detailed ethnography of drinking practices and consequences within the social and moral worlds of the two focal Adivasi communities.This research will contribute significantly to the training of a social scientist and to three contemporary areas of social science inquiry: the study of indigenous peoples, the interdisciplinary field of alcohol studies, and the ethnography of the state. It will also help to fill the need for a nuanced understanding of substance abuse problems among marginal populations. The findings of this research can thus be helpful for formulating effective public health interventions in India and elsewhere.