Constructing Mikea Identity: Past or Present Links to Forest and Foraging
Constructing Mikea Identity: Past or Present Links to Forest and Foraging
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构建 Mikea 身份：过去或现在与森林和觅食的联系
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2001
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Bram Tucker
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James W. Yount;Tsiazonera;Bram Tucker
文化认同是灵活的、丰富的，并且经常受到争论，由当地和更大的背景所塑造。在本文中，我们探讨了 Mikea 身份构建方式的一些复杂性和多样性，特别是那些自我认同的人。马达加斯加西南部的 Mikea 人与森林和觅食有关，与 Vezo 渔民和 Masikoro 农牧民形成鲜明对比，但这些群体及其经济策略却相互交织。神秘感、自豪感、耻辱感和资源主张共同提供了使用和操纵 Mikea 身份时多样化且常常相互冲突的动机。那些声称自己拥有这个标签的人通常会通过当前的行为和背景，或者通过将生者与祖先联系起来的口述历史，与森林建立起一种关系。然而，行为和血统在身份主张中可能有不同的解释，并且单独并不足以解释米卡在每种情况下的自我主张。与任何身份一样，Mikea 的身份不断被重新创造和转变。
Cultural identity is flexible, rich, and often debated, shaped by local and larger contexts. In this article we explore some of the complexity and diversity of how Mikea identity is constructed, particularly by those who identify themselves as such. The Mikea of southwestern Madagascar are associated with the forest and foraging and contrasted with Vezo fishers and Masikoro agropastoralists, yet these groups and their economic strategies both intermingle. Mystique, pride, stigma, and resource claims together provide diverse, often conflicting motivations in the use and manipulation of Mikea identity. Those who claim the label for themselves generally construct a relationship with the forest, either through present behavior and context or through oral histories linking the living with the ancestors. Nevertheless, behavior and descent may be diversely interpreted in identity claims and neither is sufficient alone to explain self-assertions of Mikea identity in every case. As with any identity, that of the Mikea is continuously recreated and transformed.