Silvia Vignato
Biographic Data
| ID | 800828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Vignato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Vignato |
| SIGNATURE | VIGNATO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feeling Hindu
Based on extensive fieldwork carried out in Medan and its region in the early 1990s, this chapter considers Hinduism as practiced by the descendants of the Tamils who migrated to North Sumatra in the late nineteenth to twentieth century and illuminates some aspects of the relationship between migration, ethnicity, and religion. I start from the assumption that when divinity is relational, embodied, and immanent (therefore localized), and when its…
Worlding Sites and Their Ambiguity: An Introduction
The idea of this volume was born within a multidisciplinary research on regional dynamics in Southeast Asia which considered both micro and macro levels of analysis. As anthropologists in the team, we chose to study social objects defined by the interplay of capital, the environment and work. Monika Arnez focused on the development of a luxury neighbourhood entirely built on reclaimed land in Melaka, and Silvia Vignato singled out a declining ext…
Ghosts on the Scene of Gas: Filming Post-industrial Sites in Aceh, Indonesia
This article describes a vision of time (the past and the future) in post-industrial dynamics that the author and her co-researchers could gain through shooting a film in the region of Lhokseumawe, Aceh, a once fruitful site of extraction of natural gas subsequently planned to become a Special Economic Zone. It engages with the notion of “worlding” processes and pinpoints, in the ethnographic case of Aceh, the difficulty to access them through di…
The effects of a merciful heart: Children and charity in Malaysia
In this article, I examine the relationship of charitable help that, through the persons and the work of caregivers, connects some donors to the young persons who grow up in home-based childcare institutions in contemporary Malaysia. The prism of my analysis is the small charity functions that take place within the homes that I have studied, which allow donors and receivers to elaborate, perfect and enact moral ideas of themselves and of their pl…
La drogue dans un village d'Aceh en Indonésie
Life after Collective Death in South East Asia: Part 1 - The (Re-)Fabrication of Social Bonds
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnne Yvonne GuillouAuthor details:Anne Yvonne Guillou and Silvia Vignato are the Guest Editors of this special issue. Dr Guillou is an anthropologist and tenured researcher at Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 190 avenue de France, 75244 Paris Cedex 13, France. E-mail: [email protected] VignatoDr Vignato is an anthropologist and tenured researcher…
Devices of Oblivion: How Islamic Schools Rescue 'Orphaned' Children from Traumatic Experiences in Aceh (Indonesia)
Since the peace agreement has put an end to the 30-year-long civil conflict in the province of Aceh in Indonesia, poverty, parental loss, lack of opportunities and an old tradition have caused a growing number of Acehnese girls and boys to spend between three and ten years in residential Koranic schools [dayah or pesantren]. There, they process their experience of the conflict, be it direct or indirect. In this article, thanks to ethnographical d…
Men come in, men go out: Single Muslim women in Malaysia and Aceh
Malay and Acehnese single women live their lives within an Islamic religious and political frame in different ways. Aceh and Malay societies share a similar tradition. Cognatic kinship and a varying focus on matrilocality and matriliny concern them both, as well as an old Islamic tradition. As other researchers have shown, for both the Malays and the Acehnese, ‘sexual desire’ or ‘passion’ and its control are a central theme in discourses on human…
Dociles ouvrières: Quelques pratiques et idées du travail salarié en Malaisie
La possibilité de travailler à l’usine a marqué un changement radical pour les femmes tamoules de l’île de Penang en Malaisie, ainsi que la plupart des Malaisiens, toutes ethnies confondues. Les histoires de vie de Devigai et Jayesh, ouvrières depuis l’adolescence et aujourd’hui dans la quarantaine, expriment la tension existant chez les Tamoules de Penang entre une perception du travail salarié en tant que ressource individuelle fondamentale et …
Patience et discrétion des Baha'i de Malaisie: Histoire et stratégie de développement d'un groupe religieux
Vignato Silvia. Patience et discrétion des Baha'i de Malaisie : Histoire et stratégie de développement d'un groupe religieux. In: Archipel, volume 56, 1998. L'horizon nousantarien. Mélanges en hommage à Denys Lombard (Volume I) pp. 429-454
Men come in, men go out: Single Muslim women in Malaysia and Aceh
Malay and Acehnese single women live their lives within an Islamic religious and political frame in different ways. Aceh and Malay societies share a similar tradition. Cognatic kinship and a varying focus on matrilocality and matriliny concern them both, as well as an old Islamic tradition. As other researchers have shown, for both the Malays and the Acehnese, ‘sexual desire’ or ‘passion’ and its control are a central theme in discourses on human…
Life after Collective Death in South East Asia: Part 1 - The (Re-)Fabrication of Social Bonds
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnne Yvonne GuillouAuthor details:Anne Yvonne Guillou and Silvia Vignato are the Guest Editors of this special issue. Dr Guillou is an anthropologist and tenured researcher at Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 190 avenue de France, 75244 Paris Cedex 13, France. E-mail: [email protected] VignatoDr Vignato is an anthropologist and tenured researcher…
Devices of Oblivion: How Islamic Schools Rescue 'Orphaned' Children from Traumatic Experiences in Aceh (Indonesia)
Since the peace agreement has put an end to the 30-year-long civil conflict in the province of Aceh in Indonesia, poverty, parental loss, lack of opportunities and an old tradition have caused a growing number of Acehnese girls and boys to spend between three and ten years in residential Koranic schools [dayah or pesantren]. There, they process their experience of the conflict, be it direct or indirect. In this article, thanks to ethnographical d…
The effects of a merciful heart: Children and charity in Malaysia
In this article, I examine the relationship of charitable help that, through the persons and the work of caregivers, connects some donors to the young persons who grow up in home-based childcare institutions in contemporary Malaysia. The prism of my analysis is the small charity functions that take place within the homes that I have studied, which allow donors and receivers to elaborate, perfect and enact moral ideas of themselves and of their pl…
Patience et discrétion des Baha'i de Malaisie: Histoire et stratégie de développement d'un groupe religieux
Vignato Silvia. Patience et discrétion des Baha'i de Malaisie : Histoire et stratégie de développement d'un groupe religieux. In: Archipel, volume 56, 1998. L'horizon nousantarien. Mélanges en hommage à Denys Lombard (Volume I) pp. 429-454
Dociles ouvrières: Quelques pratiques et idées du travail salarié en Malaisie
La possibilité de travailler à l’usine a marqué un changement radical pour les femmes tamoules de l’île de Penang en Malaisie, ainsi que la plupart des Malaisiens, toutes ethnies confondues. Les histoires de vie de Devigai et Jayesh, ouvrières depuis l’adolescence et aujourd’hui dans la quarantaine, expriment la tension existant chez les Tamoules de Penang entre une perception du travail salarié en tant que ressource individuelle fondamentale et …
Life after Collective Death in South East Asia: Part 1 - The (Re-)Fabrication of Social Bonds
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnne Yvonne GuillouAuthor details:Anne Yvonne Guillou and Silvia Vignato are the Guest Editors of this special issue. Dr Guillou is an anthropologist and tenured researcher at Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 190 avenue de France, 75244 Paris Cedex 13, France. E-mail: [email protected] VignatoDr Vignato is an anthropologist and tenured researcher…
Devices of Oblivion: How Islamic Schools Rescue 'Orphaned' Children from Traumatic Experiences in Aceh (Indonesia)
Since the peace agreement has put an end to the 30-year-long civil conflict in the province of Aceh in Indonesia, poverty, parental loss, lack of opportunities and an old tradition have caused a growing number of Acehnese girls and boys to spend between three and ten years in residential Koranic schools [dayah or pesantren]. There, they process their experience of the conflict, be it direct or indirect. In this article, thanks to ethnographical d…
Men come in, men go out: Single Muslim women in Malaysia and Aceh
Malay and Acehnese single women live their lives within an Islamic religious and political frame in different ways. Aceh and Malay societies share a similar tradition. Cognatic kinship and a varying focus on matrilocality and matriliny concern them both, as well as an old Islamic tradition. As other researchers have shown, for both the Malays and the Acehnese, ‘sexual desire’ or ‘passion’ and its control are a central theme in discourses on human…
La drogue dans un village d'Aceh en Indonésie
The effects of a merciful heart: Children and charity in Malaysia
In this article, I examine the relationship of charitable help that, through the persons and the work of caregivers, connects some donors to the young persons who grow up in home-based childcare institutions in contemporary Malaysia. The prism of my analysis is the small charity functions that take place within the homes that I have studied, which allow donors and receivers to elaborate, perfect and enact moral ideas of themselves and of their pl…
Worlding Sites and Their Ambiguity: An Introduction
The idea of this volume was born within a multidisciplinary research on regional dynamics in Southeast Asia which considered both micro and macro levels of analysis. As anthropologists in the team, we chose to study social objects defined by the interplay of capital, the environment and work. Monika Arnez focused on the development of a luxury neighbourhood entirely built on reclaimed land in Melaka, and Silvia Vignato singled out a declining ext…
Ghosts on the Scene of Gas: Filming Post-industrial Sites in Aceh, Indonesia
This article describes a vision of time (the past and the future) in post-industrial dynamics that the author and her co-researchers could gain through shooting a film in the region of Lhokseumawe, Aceh, a once fruitful site of extraction of natural gas subsequently planned to become a Special Economic Zone. It engages with the notion of “worlding” processes and pinpoints, in the ethnographic case of Aceh, the difficulty to access them through di…
Feeling Hindu
Based on extensive fieldwork carried out in Medan and its region in the early 1990s, this chapter considers Hinduism as practiced by the descendants of the Tamils who migrated to North Sumatra in the late nineteenth to twentieth century and illuminates some aspects of the relationship between migration, ethnicity, and religion. I start from the assumption that when divinity is relational, embodied, and immanent (therefore localized), and when its…
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