Adivasi Theater and Storytelling
Watch:
Forlorn Tudung: Experimentation with storytelling practices
Budhan Promo—An adivasi theater group that regularly performs in indigenous and non-indigenous spaces
#KaahonFolk- Adivasi Adibimb Festival '16— An initiative of the National School of Drama, India to showcase indigenous theatrical performances
Additional Readings:
- 'Budhan Theatre' as Case Study, by Tutun Mukherjee (Please contact library)
- Adivasi Adi-bimb: A Tribal Festival Engaged in Tribal Revitalization and Cultural Osmosis: Dismissing the Theory of Tribal Absorption? By Srabanti Choudhuri
- Tribal History: Living Word or Dead Letter? By Rudolf C. Heredi
Author Biography
Uttaran Dutta studies creative ways to address development, health, and social disparity issues. His research focuses on sustainable development and social change in marginalized communities, analyzing the importance of culture, communication, design, and innovation in transforming the lives of people who are socially, politically, and economically poor. In all his work, local participants are the key forces in identifying and developing cost-effective solutions using local resources.
In one project, Dr. Dutta is developing a computer application for illiterate people in rural India to access useful information regarding local weather, employment, education, and other basic services such as healthcare. In another project, he collaborated with local people to construct a mini hospital, library-cum-museum, and a protection wall to save sacred environmental resources in remote indigenous villages in eastern India.
Additionally, he researches the folk culture and indigenous knowledge of the underserved to document and understand alternate ways of viewing the world.