aagjevraagje t1_ir29zds wrote
Reply to comment by Luigi_Conte in IAmA anthropologist and filmmaker making a documentary about the transgender community in Kashmir. AMA! by Luigi_Conte
>It is also interesting to know that they have a guru-disciple social structure, with a complicated network of sisterly relation that makes actually feel we're speaking of a community
It's weirdly simular to like ballroom culture in the west in that regard.
Luigi_Conte OP t1_ir2cbyy wrote
As this traditional system is much older than the ballroom culture I might hypotesize that the latter might have been inspired by some pre-existing practices and rituals. In this perspective I will add that whenever there are tensions in the community (let's say someone speaking behind someone else) things are discussed and dramatized in front of the others, somehow playing with tensions and dissipating the aggressiveness throughout a ritualized approach
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