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“Today, we teach the kids where we are from": Event filmmaking and diasporic homemaking among Indian Muslims in North America
- Autor(en)
- Sanderien Verstappen
- Abstrakt
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(en)
- Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
- Journal
- HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
- Band
- 14
- Seiten
- 162–175
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 14
- ISSN
- 2049-1115
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1086/729992
- Publikationsdatum
- 2022
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 504017 Kulturanthropologie, 504021 Migrationsforschung
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Anthropology
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/ca87965d-4860-4143-9e58-f9426fd2a70c