Animal Slaughter and Religious Nationalism in Bhutan
Miyamoto, Mari ; Magnusson, Jan LU
and Korom, Frank
(2021)
In Asian Ethnology
80(1).
p.121-145
- Abstract (Swedish)
- This paper explores the shifting role of slaughter and meat consumption in Bhutan as a result of the recent religionization of Bhutanese politics and as a case of religious nationalism. It is argued that there is a tension between customary meat consumption and traditional blood sacrifice and the Buddhist non-violent ritual practice of tsethar that is propagated as a central part of modern Bhutanese nationalism and good citizenship. It has created a situation where animal welfare and vegetarianism are dominant in the public discourse while slaughter and meat consumption still continue but as concealed and obscure practices. The paper presents data from ethnographic fieldwork and other sources to demonstrate how this process has played out... (More)
- This paper explores the shifting role of slaughter and meat consumption in Bhutan as a result of the recent religionization of Bhutanese politics and as a case of religious nationalism. It is argued that there is a tension between customary meat consumption and traditional blood sacrifice and the Buddhist non-violent ritual practice of tsethar that is propagated as a central part of modern Bhutanese nationalism and good citizenship. It has created a situation where animal welfare and vegetarianism are dominant in the public discourse while slaughter and meat consumption still continue but as concealed and obscure practices. The paper presents data from ethnographic fieldwork and other sources to demonstrate how this process has played out in practice. (Less)
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- author
- Miyamoto, Mari
; Magnusson, Jan
LU
and Korom, Frank
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021-07-14
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- nonviolence, tsethar, Buddhism, Bhutan, religious nationalism, slaughter
- in
- Asian Ethnology
- volume
- 80
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 121 - 145
- publisher
- Nanzan University
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85111747434
- ISSN
- 1882-6865
- language
- Swedish
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 28d2d4dc-b8f1-44a1-a416-edc2a51bbf70
- alternative location
- https://asianethnology.org/articles/2328
- date added to LUP
- 2019-09-20 15:13:04
- date last changed
- 2023-10-07 16:11:03
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