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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
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