Social and Ritual Activity In and Out of Place: the 'Negotiation of Locality' in a Sudanese Refugee Settlement
Social and Ritual Activity In and Out of Place: the 'Negotiation of Locality' in a Sudanese Refugee Settlement
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DOI：
10.1080/17450100802376670
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
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影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Kaiser, Tania
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作者：
Kaiser, Tania
这篇文章认为，人们与他们所居住的特定物理领土的情感关系是由在他们身上实施的社会关系和实践所告知和建设性的。当人们被迫离开家园时，他们与物质、社会文化、政治和精神景观打交道的方式必然会发生变化。基于对一群长期在乌干达的苏丹难民进行的人种学研究，文章展示了对社会文化、仪式和政治身份和活动的挑战如何与对难民保护和生存的更切实的挑战一样大。文章考察了一些关键的社会文化活动，包括葬礼仪式和农业实践，探索流亡中的“安置”涉及在几个层面上积极调停外部因素的程度和方式，以及在定居点无法获得的物质文化方面以及在社会关系和实践方面的妥协和替代过程。
This article argues that peoples' affective relationships with the specific physical territories that they inhabit are informed by and constructive of the social relations and practices which are enacted in them. When people are forced to leave their homes, the ways in which they engage with their physical, socio-cultural, political and spiritual landscapes are necessarily transformed. Based on ethnographic research with a group of long term Sudanese refugees in Uganda, the article shows how challenges to socio-cultural, ritual and political identities and activities are just as great as the more tangible challenges to protection and subsistence for refugees.The article examines a number of key socio-cultural activities including funeral rituals and agricultural practices, exploring the extent and ways in which 'place making' in exile involves the active mediation of external factors at a several levels as well as processes of compromise and substitution with respect both to material culture unavailable in the settlement, and also with in relation to social relations and practice.