In this paper, the author argues that the lens of assimilation which is often used to understand cultural change within the Mising1 community in the Brahmaputra River Valley, Assam overlooks state developmental initiatives that attempt to pathologize and exploit the reproductive rights of tribal women. This paper specifically focuses on the ideas of menstrual pollution ascribed to the bodies of Mising women embedded in coercive menstrual management and family planning awareness campaigns. More broadly, the paper focuses on state discourses of purity and pollution that shapes the location of the Mising community outside Hindu caste hierarchies despite their adoption of Assamese Hindu religious and socio-economic practices.

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宋河：阿萨姆邦布拉马普特拉河谷的种姓与文化同化

在本文中，作者认为，阿萨姆邦经常被用来理解布拉汉普特拉河谷Mising1社区内文化变迁的同化镜头，忽视了试图对部落妇女的生殖权利进行病理化和剥削的国家发展计划。本文特别关注归因于强迫性月经管理和计划生育意识运动中的Mising妇女身体的月经污染观念。更广泛地讲，本文关注于国家关于纯洁和污染的论述，尽管这些论述​​采用了阿萨姆语印度教徒的宗教和社会经济实践，但它们塑造了印度教种姓制等级体系之外的Mising社区的位置。