The Body and Its Rites of Passage: Sikhism and Masculinity in Indian Punjab
<p>In this interview, film-anthropologist Harjant Gill introduces the figure of the young rural Sikh man in Indian Punjab, who later migrates to the capital city, Chandigarh or abroad. We base our conversation both on Harjant’s thesis that presents a research about the (normative) notion of masculinity constructed within these young migrants’ imaginaries (through cinema for example), as well as on his film <em>Roots of Love</em> (see below), which introduces the bodily characteristics that a Sikh man must present continuously, in particular the unshorn hair and the turban covering it. Harjant and I thus talk about this particular object that enfolds within it a particular sense of collective identity.</p>
Host: Léopold Lambert
Guests: Harjant Gill
Part of: The Funambulist Podcast