Differentiated Origins: Trajectories of Transcultural Knowledge in Laos and Beyond

Sprenger, Guido

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“…2 The relationship to the earth, the continuity of the settlement and the maintenance of the boundaries of social entities are paired with pioneering or seeking power, wealth and blessing from afar. Thus, upland socialities encompass endosocial relationships that regulate the inside and exosocial relationships that connect to the outside (Sprenger 2011).…”

Section: To W a R D S T H E N E Wmentioning

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Power and transcendence: a comment on upland pioneers

Sprenger

2021

Soc Anthropol

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Upland pioneering involves variations of two themes: drawing in power from the outside and the transcendence of local bounded social entities. Both integrate the distinction between inside and outside at the base of sociality in upland Southeast Asia. Pioneering is a valorised activity that continuously takes on new forms and thereby exemplifies the dynamics of inside and outside. Data from the Rmeet in Laos show that these movements have a gendered dimension.

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Power and transcendence: a comment on upland pioneers

Sprenger

2021

Soc Anthropol

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“…These are information, utterance, and understanding/misunderstanding. Information refers to the content of the communication, utterance to its form and context, and understanding/misunderstanding to its reception (see also Sprenger, 2011). 7 Social systems distinguish communication from mere perception by making a difference between information and utterance – a follow-up communication is directed towards an uttering entity, not to the information (Luhmann, 2008: 49).…”

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Communicated into being: Systems theory and the shifting of ontological status

Sprenger

2017

Anthropological Theory

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The inclusion of non-humans as persons into social systems raises the question: How exactly are they constituted as communicating beings? This article suggests an approach informed by Niklas Luhmann’s theory of autopoietic social systems. In particular, it addresses the question why some beings are more person-like in some contexts and more like objects or potencies in others. According to Luhmann, social systems consist not of persons but of self-reproducing, self-referential communications. Communicating beings emerge from communications that systems attribute to actors, not the other way around. The differentiated recognition of communication allows for a gradual, step-by-step ascription of personhood to non-human beings, with the possibility of shifting between ontological states. This approach is illustrated with rituals for agricultural spirits among Rmeet uplanders in Laos.

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“…Briggs (1949), Pain (2008) ; sur la notion de Kha, Chamberlain (1992), Proschan (1996) ; sur les relations entre Tai et Kha, Turton (2000). Trankell (1998), Evans (1999bEvans ( , 2000Evans ( , 2003, Goudineau (2000), Pholsena (2004a), Ovesen (2004 Tapp (2000), Culas (2004), Sprenger (2011) ; sur les rituels territoriaux, voir Condominas (1975), Bouté (2012b), Schlemmer (2012). 10.…”

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Questionner la question ethnique : lecture historique et politique des appartenances culturelles au Laos

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Differentiated Origins: Trajectories of Transcultural Knowledge in Laos and Beyond

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Power and transcendence: a comment on upland pioneers

Power and transcendence: a comment on upland pioneers

Communicated into being: Systems theory and the shifting of ontological status

Questionner la question ethnique : lecture historique et politique des appartenances culturelles au Laos

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