Participant Intoxication and Self–Other Dynamics in the Wa context

Fiskesjö, Magnus

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“…Libation is central is central to ritual and sacrifice to the extent that some Wa, when comparing their own ‘religion’ with other religious traditions, call it ‘the doctrine of liquor’ ( lih blai ) – Christianity, for instance, is ‘the doctrine of Jesus’ ( lih Yesu ). Sharing the home‐made rice wine, therefore, defines Wa autonomy, to a certain extent (Fiskesjö ).…”

Section: The Peasant Economymentioning

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The moral economy of militarism: peasant economy, military state and Chinese capitalism in the Wa State of Myanmar

Feuchtwang¹

2020

Soc Anthropol

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If the moral economies of underprivileged communities are defined in opposition to the rationality of political economy, it is easy to overlook the moral justifications of market and state. War economies and military states, however, force us to look at the nodes of moral and economic action that connect the powerful and the powerless. The Wa State of Myanmar, a de‐facto state governed by an insurgent army, represents the making of such a moral economy of militarism. Examples from the peasant economy, the military state and Chinese capitalism demonstrate the articulation of different work ethics, moral frameworks and economic arrangements. Moral and economic values are combined specifically in codes of honour, military discipline and raison d’état, that is, the value entanglements that are at the core of the moral economy of militarism.

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Section: The Peasant Economymentioning

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The moral economy of militarism: peasant economy, military state and Chinese capitalism in the Wa State of Myanmar

Feuchtwang¹

2020

Soc Anthropol

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“…35. See examples of such connections in Cesara (1982); Newton (1993); Wacquant (2004); Goulet and Miller (2007); Halloy (2007); and Fiskesjö (2010).…”

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Blanes

2013

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

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In this article we propose to engage anthropology as a romanticist discipline. Revisiting particular histories, we depict the anthropological discipline and its core method (ethnography) as imbued with sensibilities and militancies that define it as a "romantic subversion," an against-the-grain attitude against intellectual hegemonies and conformisms. We do so by focusing on three points: the charting of a romanticist conceptual agenda in anthropology; the analysis of ethnographic intersubjectivity and personal transformation as romantic heroisms; and the discussion of a counterhegemonic militant anthropology. We speculate about an anthropological ethos that is inherently subversive and "quixotic," following the inspiration of Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel.

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“…So the following day, we drove to the village, where Fijy had arranged the slaughter of a massive pig in our honour. The villagers feasted copiously on meat and alcohol, since drinking is central to Nuosu sociability and hospitality, much as it is for the Wa of Yunnan, among whom Fiskesjö carried out ‘participant intoxication’ (2010: 111). During the feasting, Fijy approached me, decorously explaining that the shape of his shamanic cap ( famo ) mimicked the cosmos, before complaining about Teacher Wei and expressing his wish for me to remain in the village for the rest of my life, studying Nuosu shamanic customs, as his employer.…”

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The captive guest: spider webs of hospitality among the Nuosu of Southwest China

Swancutt

2012

Royal Anthropological Inst

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An unstable mode of hospitality underpins an important ethnographic finding among the Nuosu of Southwest China: namely the notion that each person ‘hosts’ his or her own soul, which takes the form of a ‘soul‐spider’ residing on the outer surface of the human body. Famous for their slaveholding practices, which were disbanded by the Chinese in 1956‐7, the Nuosu nowadays take ‘captive guests’, to underscore lineage rankings within their spidery cosmology. Exploring the captive position of outsiders – including anthropologists – to the Nuosu home, the paper gives a case study of an ‘inhospitable’ dispute between a shaman and his employer at an ethnological institute. Showing why every host wishes to prevent the captive guest from ever reciprocating his or her hospitality, the paper introduces the Nuosu ‘spider‐slave complex’, which entails gathering the fullness of life through attachments to the lineage, captive guests, and the person's own soul‐spider. Résumé Les matériaux ethnographiques recueillis auprès des Nuosu du Sud‐ouest de la Chine font apparaître un mode d’hospitalité instable : l’idée que chaque personne « héberge » son âme, sous la forme d’une « araignée de l’âme » résidant sur la surface externe du corps humain. Connus pour leurs pratiques esclavagistes abolies par les Chinois en 1956‐57, les Nuosu prennent aujourd’hui des « invités captifs » pour souligner les positions des lignages dans leur cosmologie arachnide. En réfléchissant à la captivité des étrangers, y compris les anthropologues, dans la maison nuosu, l’article présente le cas d’une controverse « inhospitalière » entre un chaman et son employeur dans un institut d’ethnologie. En montrant pourquoi les hôtes veulent toujours empêcher leurs invités captifs de leur rendre leur hospitalité, l’auteure décrit le « complexe esclave‐araignée » des Nuosu, qui implique que la plénitude de la vie s’obtient par des rattachements à son lignage, aux invités captifs, et à sa propre araignée de l’âme.

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Participant Intoxication and Self–Other Dynamics in the Wa context

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The moral economy of militarism: peasant economy, military state and Chinese capitalism in the Wa State of Myanmar

The moral economy of militarism: peasant economy, military state and Chinese capitalism in the Wa State of Myanmar

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