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Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement and Caste in the Bay of Bengal - Couverture souple

Lorea, Carola E.

 
9780819502247: Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement and Caste in the Bay of Bengal
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ISBN 10 : 0819502243 ISBN 13 : 9780819502247
Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Sounding untouchability across postcolonial borders /> />Communities of Sound brings together insights from religion, anthropology, sound, and migration studies to explore the sonic traces of untouchability and forced migration across the Bay of Bengal. Based on an immersive, multi-sited ethnography with Matua devotees—a low-caste, Bengali-speaking Dalit religious community fragmented by Partition, war, and postcolonial displacement—the book explores how sound sustains identity across fractured geographies. Using richly detailed descriptions, the book follows traveling archives of song, story, and ritual performance through West Bengal, Bangladesh, and the Andaman Islands. These sonic practices—congregational singing, drumming, and itinerant storytelling—forge belonging beyond nation-states, connecting the Matua's fifty million members across borders and seas. In a world dominated by visual culture, Communities of Sound centers listening as a mode of knowledge and care, revealing how sound shapes our sense of self and cosmos. More than scriptures or doctrine, it is sound—entangled with authority and power—that binds this transregional Dalit movement and animates its collective action. The book is generously illustrated and references an online companion with video and audio examples.

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À propos de l'auteur

CAROLA E. LOREA is junior professor for the study of religions at the University of Tübingen, Germany, where she leads the ERC-funded project MANTRAMS: Mantras in Religion, Media, and Society in Global Southern Asia. She is the author of Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman (2016), and editor with Rosalind Hackett of Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North: Senses, Media and Power (2024).

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Éditeur
Wesleyan University Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0819502243
ISBN 13 
9780819502247
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
474
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