Power Protection, Social Relationships and the Ethnographer

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2145165
AutoresNicola Tannenbaum (Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen32
Número1
Páginas59-75
Fecha de publicación2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Forum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00664677.2022.2050352
OpenAlexW4224285758
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas10

Thailand’s Shan people are Buddhists but their ideas of power as protection are not explained with reference to Buddhism. Juxtaposing their ideas with the cases made for Thai and Javanese helps clarify commonalities and specificities within Southeast Asia. My understanding of power in Shan terms derives from fieldwork encounters. I trace how my understandings grew with repeated fieldwork and with my increasing embedding in social networks in the research community. Former strangers are now close friends and semi-family. Examining this process helps clarify power’s embedding and negotiation in social relations. Powerful beings are in theory free from the consequences of their actions, but in real life they are entangled in shifting networks of mutual obligations, exchanges and benefits

Buddhism · Epistemology · Ethnography · Geography · Mutual aid · Negotiation · Political science · Power (physics) · Social life · Social science · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Law · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies