মাইজভাণ্ডারের বাণী | The Message of Maizbhandar

Abstract

Masahiko Togawa describes herewith how he has acquired his realization about the fact of the anthropologists' researches by analyzing his own experiences of witnessing the Maizbhandar carnival at the remote rural Bangladesh. Togawa states that the local folks have much more knowledge of their own anthropological aspects much more than those of the anthropologists. He met several rural elderly persons who can elaborately explain the writings of the anthropologists. Though the previous anthropologists" target was to work on marginalized communities, the contemporary anthropologists of the globalized context have little scope to differentiate between the observer and the observed. An authorized researcher can reach the cognitive horizon through interaction berween the recognition subject and the recognized subject. This characteristic is known as the Phenomenological Reality in the oriental philosophy. This phenomenological reality is found in the field study of the anthropologists who conduct their field works across the rural locale. Every recognition subject and the recognized subject get in interaction through their recognition act with the subjectivity. Such coalescence is the real facet of the field's society living in inter-subjective interaction. The above conclusion Togawa brought in by explaining his journey into the world of Maizbhandar School introduced by a Bangali aaf Hazrat Syed Ahmad Ullah (1826-1906). The author got surprised to see his citation in the only academic book on Maizbhandar, Selim Jahangir and published by Bangla Academy in 1999. However, Selim is quite unknown to Togawa and until 1999 Togawa wrote nothing about Maizbhandar but just had started expressing his interest about this popular Islamic culture developed in Bangladesh. In fact, he casually had passed a few comments about Maizbhandar to Me. Sukumar Biswas, a Bangla Academy official. And, listening to Sukumar, Selim Jahangir noted down and used the note as citation of Togawa. The author felt a little embarrassed but took the incident as learning, Togawa first visited Maizbhandar village, in Fatikchari Upazila of Chattogram in 1994.