Episode Synopsis "Episode 8. Imagining Global Adivasi-ness with Arjun Rathva and Gregory D. Alles"

This episode concentrates on the translation - the transformation in performance - of the U.N.'s International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9th of August) into the World Adivasi Day (Vishwa Adivasi Divas or Din) in Gujarat, specifically in the town of Chhotaudepur.  Professor Arjun Rathva  from MC Rathva College and Professor Gregory D. Alles  from McDaniel College talk about an imagined global adivasi ('indigenous') community, ongoing legal challenges to the status of Rathvas as constituting a 'Scheduled Tribe', and 'de-religionising' processes at the World Adivasi Day.  For more on this topic, read Alles's chapter Imagine Global Adivasi-ness: Celebrating Global Adivasi Day in Chhotaudepur (Routledge 2020) (Open Access). This podcast is brought to you by INREL and GOVMAT from the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.Recording studio and technical support: UiT Result.Musical intro and outro: Lasse Michelsen.Host, editor and logo designer: Liudmila Nikanorova.

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