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An anthropological study of religious and political practices with reference to place in Kerala : a case of Kuravas

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16401026
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section海外学術
Research Field Cultural anthropology/Folklore
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

UCHIYAMADA Yasushi  University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Humanties and Social Sciences, Professor (50344841)

Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2007
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
Budget Amount *help
¥5,090,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
KeywordsIndia / Kerala / Kurava / land settlement / funerary rite / seance / untouchables / modernity / 聖地理 / 私的所有 / ヒンドゥー化 / 場所 / 身体 / 法制度 / 近代化 / 精神化 / 部族 / 非偶像 / 普遍化
Research Abstract

In the course of four years of research. Which looked into the religious and political practices of the semi-tribal group with reference to place in Kerala, South India, between 2003 and 2007 among the semi-tribal Kuravas, I met a plaati, or a necromancer and diviner, during the second year by sheer luck. I had been told that Kuravas had stopped practicing seance. My non-Kurava informants, too, had never seen seance before. Edgar Thurson reproduced short late nineteenth century account of Kurava religious practice in his Cast & Tribes in South India (1909), according to which Kuravas practice seance. Yet, there was no first-hand account of how, the dead were summoned and why they were summoned. Kuravas summoned the dead to enquire directly two important issues: (1) the cause and circumstance of death, and (2) the debt incurred by the dead. The second was particularly important for the well-being of the survivors, for the debt of the dead was a major cause of misfortunes suffered by the latter. Today, however, many educated Kuravas settle disputes in court, rather than by summoning the dead. Yet, seance has not totally gone. When legal institutions fail to function properly, Kuravas still consult a plaati to resolve their problems by summoning the dead.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2007 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2006 Annual Research Report
  • 2005 Annual Research Report
  • 2004 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (22 results)

All 2008 2007 2006 2005

All Journal Article (10 results) Presentation (10 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 死者はなぜ語らない2008

    • Author(s)
      内山田康
    • Journal Title

      歴史人類 第37号

      Pages: 137-153

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] The silence of the dead : a necromancer and modernity in Kerala2008

    • Author(s)
      Uchiyainada, Yasushi
    • Journal Title

      Rekishijinrui(History and Anthropology) No.37

      Pages: 137-153

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Indo modan no aregori to meiso suru tamago(Allegories of Indian modernity and a meditating egg)2008

    • Author(s)
      Uchiyainada, Yasushi
    • Journal Title

      Noizu to Daiarogu no Kyodotai(Communities of noises and dialogues)University of Tsuhuba Press

      Pages: 97-136

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 沈黙する死者:降霊術師とケーララのモダニティ2008

    • Author(s)
      内山田 康
    • Journal Title

      歴史人類 第36号

      Pages: 137-153

    • NAID

      40015903757

    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] カトリーン・ゴフの小農と帝国主義2007

    • Author(s)
      内山田康
    • Journal Title

      歴史人類 第36号

      Pages: 145-161

    • NAID

      40015323418

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Kathleen Gough's Peasants and Imperialism2007

    • Author(s)
      Uchiyainada, Yasushi
    • Journal Title

      Rekishijinrui(History and Anthropology) No.36

      Pages: 145-166

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] カトリーン・ゴフの小農と帝国主義2007

    • Author(s)
      内山田 康
    • Journal Title

      歴史人類 35号

      Pages: 145-161

    • NAID

      40015323418

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 景観、顔、(上位)の符号2006

    • Author(s)
      内山田康
    • Journal Title

      公共研究 第3巻2号

      Pages: 88-108

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Landscape, Face, (Over) Code2006

    • Author(s)
      Uchiyainada, Yasushi
    • Journal Title

      Kokyokenkyu(Journal of Public Affairs) Vol.3, No.2

      Pages: 88-108

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 景観、顔、(上位の)符号2006

    • Author(s)
      内山田 康
    • Journal Title

      公共研究 3・2

      Pages: 88-113

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Changing tribal deities and changing mechanisms of signification and subjectification2006

    • Author(s)
      Uchiyamada, Yasushi
    • Organizer
      Research Seminar the Question of Humans and Artifacts'
    • Place of Presentation
      Kyoto University
    • Year and Date
      2006-12-06
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] 分散したパーソン、個人なバーソン、再び現れた徘徊症の女神2006

    • Author(s)
      内山田康
    • Organizer
      もの研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      京都市生涯学習センター山科
    • Year and Date
      2006-06-10
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] Distributed Person, Individual Person and A Reemerged Errant Goddess2006

    • Author(s)
      Uchiyamada, Yasushi
    • Organizer
      RES(Mono Kenkyukai)
    • Place of Presentation
      Lifelong Study Center, Yamashina
    • Year and Date
      2006-06-10
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] 死者を媒介するモノとからだ2006

    • Author(s)
      内山田康
    • Organizer
      研究会「人トモノの問題系」
    • Place of Presentation
      京都大学
    • Year and Date
      2006-06-09
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] Artifacts and bodies which mediate the dead2006

    • Author(s)
      Uchiyamada, Yasushi
    • Organizer
      Research Seminar 'the Question of Humans and Artifacts'
    • Place of Presentation
      Kyoto University
    • Year and Date
      2006-06-09
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] 景観、顔、(上位の)符号2006

    • Author(s)
      内山田康
    • Organizer
      シンボジウム「風土論、環境倫理、公共性」
    • Place of Presentation
      千葉大学
    • Year and Date
      2006-01-18
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] Landscape, Face, (Over・)Code2006

    • Author(s)
      Uchiyamada, Yasushi
    • Organizer
      'Fudo-ron, Environmental Ethics & Public' Symposium
    • Place of Presentation
      Chiba University
    • Year and Date
      2006-01-18
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] 部族の神が変わる時、同時に変わって行く意味形成と主体形成の仕褂け2005

    • Author(s)
      内山田康
    • Organizer
      研究会「人トモノの問題系」
    • Place of Presentation
      京都大学
    • Year and Date
      2005-12-06
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] Beylaws and Asrtologers2005

    • Author(s)
      内山田康
    • Organizer
      South Asia Anthropologists Group
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Sussex
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] Beylaws and astrologers2005

    • Author(s)
      Uchiyamada, Yasushi
    • Organizer
      SAAG Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Sussex
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] ノイズとダイア口ーグの共同体2008

    • Author(s)
      内山田康
    • Publisher
      筑波大学出版会
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] 『ノイズとダイアローグの共同体』「インドモダンのアレゴリーと瞑想する卵」2008

    • Author(s)
      内山田 康
    • Publisher
      筑波大学出版会
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report

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