Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Pedagogy of Dignity: The Jogini System and the Making of Juridical Subjects in South India

主要调查人员：黛博拉·普尔和海丝特·贝特勒姆题目：博士论文研究：尊严的教育学：乔吉尼制度和南印度法律科目的形成这项研究调查了1)印度安得拉邦农村的非政府组织的社会改革如何使州法律可行，禁止被认为与人的尊严无法相称的习俗，以及2)改革的目标是如何被以前的这种习俗的实践者所占据。1988年的安德拉邦《禁止奉献法》宣布，一种俗称为jogini系统的习俗是非法的，即父母和其他近亲将年轻的低种姓女孩献给村里的女神。政府官员认为，标志着这一制度的性庇护制度是对妇女尊严的侵犯，因为它阻碍了妇女在决定自己的性取向方面的机构、自主权和自由意志。然而，乔吉尼女性本身并不承认自己的违规行为。因此，法律建议政府和非政府发起的改革方案，以确保乔吉尼妇女的道德/伦理倾向，理解这种习俗是对人的尊严的侵犯。考虑到在该法律通过时，乔吉尼和国家对侵犯的理解之间的差异，以及过去20年乔吉尼女性持续的改革努力，这项研究提出了最核心的问题：乔吉尼女性的日常语言、做法和性格以什么方式参与或承认政府和非政府组织声称她们的奉献侵犯了与生俱来的人的尊严，这种尊严与权利和公民的法律概念有关？虽然拟议的研究将主要通过人种学研究进行，但将在金奈进行两个月的档案研究，并在海得拉巴对非政府组织和政府官员进行两个月的结构化访谈。这项研究将有助于在非西方地区传播在国际人权话语中广泛流传的人的尊严等概念，此外，它还将有助于关于国家和法律的人类学文献，并为国际人权、法律和国家人类学的本科生课程做准备。这项研究将通过学术期刊所有文章和会议广泛传播.此外，它将成为印度非政府组织和独立研究组织的有用的研究机构，这些组织致力于通过使用人的尊严等国际概念来实现社会变革和政策变革。

Primary Investigators: Deborah Poole and Hester BetlemTitle: Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Pedagogy of Dignity: The Jogini System and the Making of Juridical Subjects in South India0720214AbstractThis research investigates 1) how non-government organized social reform in rural Andhra Pradesh, India makes actionable a state law prohibiting a custom perceived as incommensurable with human dignity and 2) how the objectives of reform are inhabited by former practitioners of this custom. The 1988 Andhra Pradesh Devadasi (Prohibition of Dedication) Act outlawed a custom, colloquially known as the jogini system, in which parents and other close kin dedicate young, low caste girls to a village Goddess. The system of sexual patronage that marks the system was understood, by government officials, to be a violation of a woman's dignity by deterring her agency, autonomy, and free will in determining her own sexuality. However, there was no self-recognition of violation from jogini women themselves. Consequently, the law recommended government and non-government initiated reform programs, in order to secure a moral/ethical disposition among jogini women that understands the custom to be a violation of human dignity. Given the discrepancy between jogini and state understandings of violation at the time the law was passed, and the sustained reform efforts among jogini women over the last two decades, this research asks most centrally: in what ways do the everyday languages, practices and dispositions of jogini women engage or acknowledge government and non-government claims that their dedications violate an innate human dignity tied to legal conceptions of rights and citizenship? Though the proposed research will primarily be conducted through ethnographic research, it will be supplemented with two months of Archival Research in Chennai and two months of stuctured interviews with NGO and government officials in Hyderabad. This research will contribute to sholarship about the dissemination of concepts like human dignity, which circulate widely in international human rights discourses, in non- western locales, In addition, it will contribute to anthropological literature on state and law, and prepare the Co-PI to conduct undergraduate courses on the anthropology of human rights, law and state. The research will be distributed widely through academic journall articles and conferences. Moreover, it will serve as a useful body of research for Indian non-governement organization and independent research organizations committed to effecting social change and policy changes through the use of international concepts like human dignity.