Legitimizing "The Reason We Cut"

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  • 我々はなぜ切らねばならないのか
  • Reconstruction of Slaughter by Meat-Selling Caste "Khadgi" in Nepal
  • ネパールの肉売りカースト「カドギ」による屠畜の再構築

Abstract

<p>This study examined the implications of the practices people use to legitimize animal sacrifice and slaughter.</p> <p>In Nepal, hygiene concepts and animal welfare discourses are penetrating. Moreover, the government is leading the modernization of the meat sector, such as by urging the conversion of local abattoirs into huge slaughterhouses. The Khadgis, who have traditionally been engaged in slaughter and blood sacrifice as their caste-based roles, have adapted to these social shifts. However, the Khadgis are also enthusiastic about keeping their ritual practices. They legitimize their caste-based roles of cutting the necks of animals through ritualistic practices by reinterpreting their roles as "self-devotional service for deities."</p> <p>Previous research has elucidated that through modernization, people engaged in slaughtering are marginalized and rendered invisible outsiders. Contrarily, this study identified people's practices of remaining in alliance with related actors by legitimizing "the reason they cut" and reconstructing folk knowledge of slaughter.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390578990185804032
  • DOI
    10.14890/jjcanth.88.1_056
  • ISSN
    24240516
    13490648
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
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