Avestan Ritual in India

印度的阿维斯坦仪式

• 批准号: EP/Y026470/1
• 负责人: Almut Hintze
• 金额: $ 269.79万
• 依托单位: School of Oriental and African Studies
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY026470%2F1
• 关键词: Avestan; Ritual; India

What are the sequential, hierarchical and dynamic properties of ritual activities which Zoroastrian priestsperform in India to this day in their millennia-old solemn rituals lasting for many hours? The aim of AVINDIAis to detect, describe, visualise and analyse how these rituals are structured as systematically organised activity,and to reconstruct their genesis and historical trajectory. Taking the Visperad ritual as a case study, and usingfilm and computational technologies, AVINDIA examines the ritual activities in the film it creates, in Gujaratilanguage sources, and in the Sanskrit version of the Avestan recitation text in order to track the historicalchanges in how the ritual is practised and understood in India. In addition to an analysis based on a closelydetailed study, change over long periods of time and across the boundaries of religious cultures is examinedby analysing the ritual structure of the Visperad in the Indo-Iranian diachronic perspective.The Visperad provides the ideal case study because live performances can still be witnessed in India, and onlythere. Our overall aim is to contribute to a deeper understanding and appreciation of this archaic, living, butcritically endangered human heritage, originating in the prehistoric oral culture of the Indo-Iranians. AVINDIAdevelops a descriptive and analytical technique for Zoroastrian ritual action that is both systematic and detailed,and is useful to researchers in ritual studies and beyond. It is a contribution to the ongoing attempt by scholarsto pursue the analogy between linguistic grammars and non-linguistic grammar-like, structured systems suchas music, dance, and ritual. This interdisciplinary project crosses the boundaries between ethnographic filmstudies, ritual studies, digital humanities and philology, and opens up research programmes for scholarsworking in ethnology, anthropology, linguistics, history, sociology, religious studies, and performance studies.

在印度，琐罗亚斯德教祭司在数千年前持续数小时的庄严仪式中，所执行的仪式活动的顺序、等级和动态特征是什么？AVINDIA的目的是检测、描述、可视化和分析这些仪式是如何作为系统组织的活动来组织的，并重建它们的起源和历史轨迹。AVINDIA以Visperad仪式为例，利用电影和计算机技术，考察了其创作的古吉拉特语电影中的仪式活动，以及梵文版本的阿维斯特诵读文本，以追踪印度人对仪式的实践和理解方式的历史变化。除了基于详细研究的分析外，还通过分析印度-伊朗历时视角中Visperad的仪式结构来检验长期和跨越宗教文化边界的变化。Visperad提供了理想的案例研究，因为在印度仍然可以看到现场表演，而且只有在那里才能看到。我们的总体目标是帮助更深入地理解和欣赏这一古老的、活的、但严重濒危的人类遗产，它起源于印度-伊朗人的史前口头文化。AVINDIA开发了一种描述和分析琐罗亚斯德教仪式行为的技术，既系统又详细，对仪式研究和其他领域的研究人员都很有用。这是学者们正在进行的一项努力的贡献，他们试图在语言语法和非语言语法类似的结构化系统之间进行类比，如音乐、舞蹈和仪式。这一跨学科项目跨越了民族志电影研究、仪式研究、数字人文和文献学之间的界限，为从事民族学、人类学、语言学、历史学、社会学、宗教研究和表演研究的学者开辟了研究方案。