Communities of Sound : Religion, Displacement, and Caste in the Bay of Bengal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lorea, Carola E.

Series:

Music / Culture Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (475 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, CT. 06459 : Wesleyan University Press, 2026.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Titlepage

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on the Companion Website

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction

Islandness: a Bay of Bengal Perspective

Sounds of Communities

Communities of Sound

Why Interdisciplinarity? Desecularizing Displacement

Why Interdisciplinarity? Sounding Migration, Sensing Caste

On Positionality, Islamophobia, and Spiritual Kinship

Part I Adhibas A Welcoming Reception

One Matua Identity in Time, Space, and Practice

Chandala, Haribbola, Matua

Namashudra Movement and Matua Religion, 1812-1947

Post-Partition Displacement, Dispersal, and Rehabilitation

Displacement and the Matua Network

Three Regions, One Archipelago

Two Islands of Faith The Making of Religion in the Context of Displacement

Audible Scriptures and Intersections of Text and Sound

Matua (HI) Storytelling and the Dalit Renaissance

Are Matuas Hindu?

Islamophobic Politics and an Offering of Beef

Reassembling the Broken Pieces: a Coconut Necklace and a Wooden Staff

Matapitatattva: The Doctrine of the Mother and the Father

Avataras of Justice: Subverting Familiar Genealogies of Incarnations

Australian Baptist Missionary Converts to Matua Faith: Stories of Vicinity and Distinction from Christianity

A Pious Crocodile: Othering Vaishnavism, Legitimizing Islands of Faith

Stories and Community

Part II Mahotsab A Sonic Feast

Three Sonic Practices Poetics and Politics of Displaced Religious Sounds

Histories and Ethnographies of Kirtan

Matua Style of Kirtan

Conductors of Feeling: Kirtaniyas of the Matua Community

Making Community: a Sensory Framework

Danka

Matam

Acoustic Virility, Liberation Feminized: the Gender of Kirtan

Four Instantiations of Communities of Sound

Sonic Soteriology, Ensounded Samādhi

Sonic Shield

Sonic Flag

Sonic Vaccine

Loud and Hot: Aesthetics of Sacred Sound

Hugging and Mutual Touch: Displays of Touchability

Five Sonic Epistemologies

Sounds Like Othering

Sound, Folklore, or Unnecessary Noise

Islands of Sound: Tradition and Change

Islands of Sound: Congregation and Separation

Thinking with Communities of Sound

Part III Min Mahotsab a Farewell

Six Embodied Territory Tidalectics of Mud and Water

Rolling in the Mud

Displacement, Emplacement, and Embodied Religion

Affective Reterritorialization: Moving with Soil and Water

Mother and Land: the Gender of Substances

Caste and the Politics of Religious Place-making

Amphibious Narratives: Denaturalizing Body and Space

Aquatic Goddesses and Migrant Rituals of Return

Transnational Religious Tidalectics

Place-avataras and Sonic Returns

Sounding the Body-land

Sonic Avataras

Tasting the Body-place

Rethinking Religious Place-making from Islandness

Epilogue

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8195-0225-1

9780819502254

OCLC:

1581934650

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access