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，琐罗亚斯德教的祭司们至今在他们长达数千年的庄严仪式中进行的仪式活动，其顺序、等级和动态的特性是什么？AVINDIA的目的是检测，描述，可视化和分析这些仪式是如何结构化的系统组织活动，并重建其起源和历史轨迹。以Visperad仪式为案例研究，并使用电影和计算技术，AVDIA检查了它创建的电影中的仪式活动，古吉拉特语来源，以及梵语版本的阿维斯陀背诵文本，以跟踪仪式在印度的实践和理解的历史变化。除了基于详细研究的分析之外，还通过从印度-伊朗历时的角度分析Visperad的仪式结构来考察长期以来和跨越宗教文化边界的变化。Visperad提供了理想的案例研究，因为现场表演在印度仍然可以看到，而且只有在那里。我们的总体目标是促进对这一古老的、活生生的、但濒临灭绝的人类遗产的更深入的理解和欣赏，它起源于印度-伊朗人的史前口头文化。AVINDIA为琐罗亚斯德教的仪式行为开发了一种描述和分析技术，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。这是一个贡献，正在进行的尝试，追求语言语法和非语言语法之间的类比，结构系统，如音乐，舞蹈和仪式。这个跨学科的项目跨越了民族志电影研究，仪式研究，数字人文和语言学之间的界限，并开辟了民族学，人类学，语言学，历史，社会学，宗教研究和表演研究的研究计划。