This episode concentrates on the translation - the transformation in performance - of the U.N.'s International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9th of August) into the World Adivasi Day (Vishwa Adivasi Divas or Din) in Gujarat, specifically in the town of Chhotaudepur.
Professor Arjun Rathva from MC Rathva College and Professor Gregory D. Alles from McDaniel College talk about an imagined global adivasi ('indigenous') community, ongoing legal challenges to the status of Rathvas as constituting a 'Scheduled Tribe', and 'de-religionising' processes at the World Adivasi Day.
For more on this topic, read Alles's chapter Imagine Global Adivasi-ness: Celebrating Global Adivasi Day in Chhotaudepur (Routledge 2020) (Open Access).
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Musical intro and outro: Lasse Michelsen.
Host, editor and logo designer: Liudmila Nikanorova.