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

研究生罗杰·贝格里奇将在Veena Das博士的指导下，调查阿迪瓦西(土著或部落人民)与印度政府之间的关系。研究将在印度恰尔肯德邦的两个阿迪瓦西社区进行，为期18个月，一个是城市社区，一个是农村社区。恰尔肯德邦是印度联邦新成立的邦，在阿迪瓦西运动要求邦自治50多年后，于2000年11月被授予邦地位。这个新的联邦邦的建立代表着印度土著人民历史上的一个重要转折点。因此，特别有必要分析在这一特定时刻政府进程和地方社区之间的互动所产生的动态。这项调查的特别焦点将是阿迪瓦西的饮酒行为，这些做法长期以来一直是国家关注的改革阿迪瓦西社区的中心，同时也是阿迪瓦西身份的一个基本方面。研究人员将从殖民和当代档案中收集数据，并将进行人种学实地研究，使用参与性绘图、半结构访谈、家庭预算分析、家庭调查和参与者观察。他将调查构成阿迪瓦病的国家话语和做法，通过他们的饮酒做法，作为一个独特的人口，作为改革的目标。他还将汇编阿迪瓦西两个重点社区社会和道德世界中饮酒做法和后果的详细民族志。这项研究将对社会科学家的培训和当代社会科学研究的三个领域做出重大贡献：土著人民研究、酒精研究的跨学科领域以及国家的民族志。它还将有助于满足对边缘人群中的药物滥用问题有细微差别的了解的需要。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.