Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: The magic of place Sama at sea and on land in Sulawesi, Indonesia Marine worlds and the question of placeHow are understandings of locality, community, and region formed and lived?To answer this question, we must turn away from the commonsense idea that such things as locality and community are simply given or natural and turn toward a focus on social and political processes of place making, conceived less as a matter of 'ideas' than of embodied practices that shape identities and enable resistances.(Gupta and Ferguson 1997:6.)People can try to discredit a person and his experiences -and for that there is an entire arsenal of reasons ready for use, especially for people with access to money and power (Toer 1999:xi).Southeast Asian marine worlds are inherently regions of travel bringing together peoples, languages, trade, politics, and religions, and tying together histories from multiple sites. 1 The seas and coasts in Sulawesi, Indonesia, for example, are inhabited in diverse ways.Bugis people, for instance, are 1 My thanks to David Lindroth for drawing the maps.
Author: Celia Lowe
Language: Dutch
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2072471238