When Esperantists Meet, or What Makes This Community International?

Fians, Guilherme

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“…Esperanto is neither officially nor customarily spoken anywhere, is hardly taught within educational systems and virtually no one needs to learn it to live abroad or travel. Removed from nation-states and market demands, Esperanto finds its place in feeding non-hegemonic, grassroots political practices by giving voice to those who speak from the margins (Fians, 2021). The language then becomes key to the creation of specific multilingual forums through which progressive activists exchange ideas across borders.…”

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The others’ others: When taking our natives seriously is not enough

Fians

2023

Critique of Anthropology

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Since Malinowski, taking the natives seriously has been a core issue for ethnographers, as this principle encloses two terms nurturing much theoretical debate in sociocultural anthropology: ‘native’ and ‘point of view’. Yet, this entails a parallel issue: aside from taking one’s natives seriously, have anthropologists been taking other anthropologists’ natives equally seriously? The discipline came to take for granted the legitimacy of Others constituted by discourses of race, sex, class, ethnicity and colonialism. However, anthropology seems to continuously marginalize groups – from children and speakers of ‘invented’ languages to UFO witnesses – whose practices are routinely mocked or dismissed as foolish. This article analyzes certain anthropologists and their ethnographies of unsanctioned interlocutors who were cast aside by scholarship. I argue that ‘taking seriously’ must be not only an experiment that builds rapport between individual anthropologists and natives, but also one that makes room for the natives’ viewpoints to flow within the discipline.

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confidence: 99%