“Godna/Tattoo: The rearticulation of Indian traditions in Post-Indentured Trinidad”
LACIS Lunchtime Lecture Series
Event Details
Date
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Time
12-1 p.m.
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Description
Presented by Dr. Vishala Parmasad
This paper explores how members of the Indian Trinidadian South Asian diasporic community perceive continuity and change within their identitarian Hindu religio-cultural practices and folk artforms through a historical-anthropological examination of godna. Godna refers to a hand-poke tattooing practice through which Hindu women embodied ethnic & religious identity as ex-indentured Indians reassembled community from remembered fragments of pre-indentured lives.
This paper explores how members of the Indian Trinidadian South Asian diasporic community perceive continuity and change within their identitarian Hindu religio-cultural practices and folk artforms through a historical-anthropological examination of godna. Godna refers to a hand-poke tattooing practice through which Hindu women embodied ethnic & religious identity as ex-indentured Indians reassembled community from remembered fragments of pre-indentured lives.
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Free
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