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dc.identifier	ECF_article_6885
dc.title	Mining in a Sacred Landscape: Adivasis, Deities and Alliances in a Former Princely State in Odisha/India
dc.contributor.author	Skoda Uwe
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/2021/2/mining-in-a-sacred-landscape-adivasis-deities-and/
dc.description.abstract	The papers explores ideas of a sacred landscape inhabited by indigenous people as well as other communities, deities as well as other beings manifested in localities and ‘objects’ forming various relationships, alliances and a thick web of relationality in a former kingdom in central-eastern India. It introduces these historically evolved ties through the foundational narratives as well as contemporary rituals, while the area is undergoing major transformations after Indian independence and even more so in a phase of accelerated industrialisation, especially tied to a mining boom and sponge iron factories. The latter not only threatens to uproot an existing, though changing sacrificial polity around local deities, but it also has massive ecological consequences and leads to partially successful protests.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lagoonscapes
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 1 \| Num. 2 \| Dicembre 2021
dc.issued	2021-12-20
dc.dateAccepted	2021-10-27
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-10-03
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-2709
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/LGSP//2021/02/005
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Adivasi
dc.subject	Adivasi
dc.subject	Goddess
dc.subject	Goddess
dc.subject	Mining
dc.subject	Mining
dc.subject	Odisha
dc.subject	Odisha
dc.subject	Sacred landscape
dc.subject	Sacred landscape

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Mining in a Sacred Landscape: Adivasis, Deities and Alliances in a Former Princely State in Odisha/India

Uwe Skoda Aarhus Universitet, Danmark

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abstract

The papers explores ideas of a sacred landscape inhabited by indigenous people as well as other communities, deities as well as other beings manifested in localities and ‘objects’ forming various relationships, alliances and a thick web of relationality in a former kingdom in central-eastern India. It introduces these historically evolved ties through the foundational narratives as well as contemporary rituals, while the area is undergoing major transformations after Indian independence and even more so in a phase of accelerated industrialisation, especially tied to a mining boom and sponge iron factories. The latter not only threatens to uproot an existing, though changing sacrificial polity around local deities, but it also has massive ecological consequences and leads to partially successful protests.

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20 Dicembre 2021

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27 Ottobre 2021

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03 Ottobre 2021

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Keywords: Adivasi • Goddess • Odisha • Mining • Sacred landscape

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