ABSTRACT

Jathera worship is a popular devotional practice of Punjab in which obeisance is paid to ancestors of the got/gotra. This paper presents a case study of a jathera known as Baba Kala Mehar Sandhu in Faridkot. Its worship is marked by heterodox rituals such as offering and consuming liquor as parshad (oblation) to the deity. I argue that the continued persistence of the practice into the twenty-first century, despite facing proscription from the dominant religions of Punjab, is on account of the complex modes of negotiation that the jathera undertakes and the potentialities for subaltern resistance that it offers to its primary cultural agents - a caste of genealogists-musicians known as Dhadis and Mirasis.

摘要

Jathera 崇拜是旁遮普邦一种流行的虔诚做法，其中向got/gotra 的祖先致敬。本文介绍了在法里德科特 (Faridkot) 被称为 Baba Kala Mehar Sandhu 的 jathera 的案例研究。它的崇拜以异端仪式为标志，例如供奉和消费酒作为对神的parshad（供品）。我认为，尽管面临旁遮普主流宗教的禁止，这种做法仍持续到 21 世纪，这是由于 jathera 进行的复杂谈判模式以及它向其提供的从属抵抗的潜力。主要文化代理人 - 被称为 Dhadis 和 Mirasis 的系谱学家 - 音乐家的种姓。