Wedding Videos in North Kerala: Technologies, Rituals, and Ideas about Love and Conjugality

Abraham, Janaki

doi:10.1111/j.1548-7458.2010.01072.x

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“…41-61;Miller 1954). Nevertheless, the Thiyyas experienced considerable disadvantages through restrictions of untouchability and unapproachability (Abraham 2010). One of them was differential access to the temple (kshetrams) and the shrines (kavus).…”

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Intertwining Christian Mission, Theology, and History: A Case Study of the Basel Mission among the Thiyyas and Badagas of Kerala, 1870–1913

Roy

2021

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For centuries, various denominations of Christian missionaries have contributed in a larger way towards the spread of Christianity among the people of Indian sub-continent. Each Church had its own principles of preaching the word of God and undertook welfare activities in and around the mission-stations. From establishing schools to providing medical aids, the Christian missionaries were involved in constant perseverance to improve the ‘indigenous’ societies not only in terms of amenities and opportunities, but also in spiritual aspects. Despite conversion being the prime motive, every Mission prepared ground on which their undertakings found meanings and made an impact over people’s lives. These endeavours, combining missiological and theological discourses, brought hope and success to the missionaries, and in our case study, the Basel Mission added to the history of the Christian Mission while operating in the coastal and hilly districts of Kerala during the 19th and the 20th centuries. Predominantly following the trait of Pietism, the Basel Mission emphasised practical matters more than doctrine, which was evident in the Mission activities among the Thiyyas and the Badagas of Malabar and Nilgiris, respectively. Along with addressing issues like the caste system and spreading education in the ‘backward’ regions, the most remarkable contribution of the Basel Mission established the ‘prototype’ of industries which was part of the ‘praxis practice’ model. It aimed at self-sufficiency and provided a livelihood for a number of people who otherwise had no honourable means of subsistence. Moreover, conversion in Kerala was a combination of ‘self-transformation’ and active participation which resulted in ‘enculturation’ and inception of ‘modernity’ in the region. Finally, this article shows that works of the Basel Mission weaved together its theological and missiological ideologies which determined its exclusivity as a Church denomination.

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Intertwining Christian Mission, Theology, and History: A Case Study of the Basel Mission among the Thiyyas and Badagas of Kerala, 1870–1913

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2021

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“…The most contemporary wedding albums vividly bring out the performance of the rituals and enable the human eye to see the minute details of the ceremony. The camera eye's ability to capture such details and the photographer's role in enlarging and highlighting them in the wedding album bring a sense of staging and drama to weddingalbum production (Abraham 2010;Adrian 2003). In other words, the modern wedding album brings out a more performance-oriented view of the marriage, and presents the rituals in more elaborate and dramatic forms.…”

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Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense

Carsten¹,

Chiu²,

Magee³

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Go fiwa molao/giving the law: marriage, law and social change in Botswana 34 Koreen M. Reece 2 'You can learn to do it right, or you can learn to do it wrong': marriage counselling, togetherness and creative conservatism in Lynchburg, Virginia 54 Siobhan Magee 3 Marriage, time, affect and the politics of compromise in Athens 76 Eirini Papadaki 4 Getting married as a trial: deferring marriage in Jinmen, Taiwan 95 Hsiao-Chiao Chiu 5 (Un)certain futures: rhythms and assemblages of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriages 118 Sidharthan Maunaguru 6 Marriage and self-fashioning in Penang, Malaysia: transformations of the intimate and the political 140 Janet Carsten Index 160 LiSt of figuRES vii List of figures 1.1 Go fiwa molao: Batswana women 'give the law' to the new bride, covered in blankets. © Koreen M. Reece. 35 4.1 Steady rise in the age at first marriage for both sexes.

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“…Large sections of Thiyyas, however, continue to engage in blue-collar occupations and make up the lower echelons of both the Marxist Left and Hindu Right. For a nuanced reading of the complicated structural position and history of self-identifications amongst Thiyyas, see Abraham (2010) and Sarah Sam (2014). livings largely through various forms of blue-collar jobs such as masonry and carpentry, or as daily-wage labourers in the construction industry.…”

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Political violence, community and its limits in Kannur, Kerala

Chaturvedi¹

2015

Contributions to Indian Sociology

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This article analyses communities that the blue-collar, backward caste, local-level workers of the party Left and the Hindu Right have forged amongst themselves in the Kannur district of Kerala. Its particular focus is on members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)). For more than four decades, members of the CPI (M) and the Hindu Right have been involved in an intermittent but occasionally intense conflict. Their conflict highlights how modern practices of political mobilisation and competition condition the formation of close-knit antagonistic masculine unities regardless of the ideological affiliations in question; its violent context foregrounds affects and emotions that characterise life in such fraternal communities. While such unities have become central to the enactment of collective agency in many contexts, strong limits mark these communities. Not just those outside a community, but also those within it apprehend these limits. Violent experiences emerge as idealised modes of imagining communion with members of one's community, as well as forces that individuate them.Biographies and narratives of Left-and Right-wing workers who once sought close integration with their respective communities but now live apart from them, illuminate the already present limits of commonality and unity possible in modern political communities.

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Wedding Videos in North Kerala: Technologies, Rituals, and Ideas about Love and Conjugality

Cited by 14 publications

References 4 publications

Intertwining Christian Mission, Theology, and History: A Case Study of the Basel Mission among the Thiyyas and Badagas of Kerala, 1870–1913

Intertwining Christian Mission, Theology, and History: A Case Study of the Basel Mission among the Thiyyas and Badagas of Kerala, 1870–1913

Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense

Political violence, community and its limits in Kannur, Kerala

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