@misc{Demski_Dagnosław_Marginalne_2025,
 author={Demski, Dagnosław},
 volume={23},
 copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license},
 address={Kraków},
 journal={Journal of Urban Ethnology},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2025},
 publisher={Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk},
 language={pol},
 abstract={In the period of heritagisation and tourism, India witnesses changes not only in the centres on the UN-ESCO World Heritage list, but also the small, local, previously little known sites of religious practices. Small-scale lists of places worth visiting in a given region are compiled, adding to the lists of the wonders of the world or informative lists (tentative lists) of places to visit. This article explores the transformation of an annual ritual performed by the Rabari pastoralist community in the Kutch region of India, ana-lysing it through the lens of heritagisation and spectacularisation. The ritual in honour of the goddess Bhad Mata, once deeply rooted in religious practice and pastoral cosmology, is increasingly reframed as a cultural heritage performance, consumed by tourists, researchers and institutional observers. The author demonstrates how spiritual embodiment and trance, particularly through the figure of the bhopa(ritual medium), become not only expressions of devotion, but also sites of meaning production within a changing cultural economy. The paper distinguishes between the emic meanings ascribed to the ritual by its participants and the etic frameworks imposed by external agents, including heritage institutions. It argues that heritage is not a neutral legacy of the past but a dynamic, contested space where identity, memory and agency are continuously negotiated. The case of the Rabari illustrates how heritage remains a living, affective, and politically charged process situated at the crossroads of the sacred, the market, and cultural policy.},
 title={Marginalne dziedzictwo? Lokalne praktyki pasterzy Rabari a polityka reprezentacji kulturowej w Indiach},
 type={Text},
 URL={http://rcin.org.pl/iae/Content/257767/294768_I.pdf},
 keywords={heritagisation, cultural representation, spectacularisation, shepherds, India},
}