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“Today, we teach the kids where we are from": Event filmmaking and diasporic homemaking among Indian Muslims in North America

Author(s)
Sanderien Verstappen
Abstract

How do people make themselves at home in situations of movement, dispersal, and marginalization? Migration scholars have destabilized the idea that a home is bound to a dwelling, and developed more processual ways of conceptualizing home. In this article I bring this research agenda into conversation with the anthropology of events, to conceptualize social events as a diasporic home-making practice. Methodologically, I demonstrate how event filmmaking, a genre of ethnographic filmmaking, can be used as a research method in event studies. To develop this conceptual and methodological contribution, I draw on my experiences while making a film about the Vohra families reunion, a community event for Indian Gujarati Muslims (Vohras) in the United States and Canada. I interpret the reunion’s potential as a home-making practice in the light of the social position of Muslims as a religious minority in the United States, in India, and in the Indian diaspora.

Organisation(s)
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Journal
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Volume
14
Pages
162–175
No. of pages
14
ISSN
2049-1115
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1086/729992
Publication date
2022
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
504017 Cultural anthropology, 504021 Migration research
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Anthropology
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https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/today-we-teach-the-kids-where-we-are-from-event-filmmaking-and-diasporic-homemaking-among-indian-muslims-in-north-america(ca87965d-4860-4143-9e58-f9426fd2a70c).html