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題名 The Spirits are Crying: Dispossessing land and possessing bodies in rural Cambodia
作者 吳考甯
Work, Courtney
Beban, Alice
貢獻者 民族系
日期 2014-01
上傳時間 11-Jun-2021 16:16:24 (UTC+8)
摘要 In 2009, a land spirit disrupted plantation development within a contested Economic Land Concession in Cambodia. The spirit, along with efforts of a monk and NGO, ultimately persuaded state officials to return 5 ha of land to the local temple. In this paper, we bring together literature on the anthropology of religion, political economy of land possession, and critical development studies; we demonstrate that land spirits continue as members of political patronage chains at both the state and the local level, and show how the non-capitalist logics of spirit negotiations both challenged and legitimized large-scale land acquisition projects. The spirit was not subsumed by, but rather shaped, contemporary capitalist expansion in ways that call for a critical examination of the ontological certainty that all land is designed for human production and consumption.
關聯 Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Vol.46, pp.593-610
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12073
dc.contributor 民族系
dc.creator (作者) 吳考甯
dc.creator (作者) Work, Courtney
dc.creator (作者) Beban, Alice
dc.date (日期) 2014-01
dc.date.accessioned 11-Jun-2021 16:16:24 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 11-Jun-2021 16:16:24 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 11-Jun-2021 16:16:24 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/135791-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) In 2009, a land spirit disrupted plantation development within a contested Economic Land Concession in Cambodia. The spirit, along with efforts of a monk and NGO, ultimately persuaded state officials to return 5 ha of land to the local temple. In this paper, we bring together literature on the anthropology of religion, political economy of land possession, and critical development studies; we demonstrate that land spirits continue as members of political patronage chains at both the state and the local level, and show how the non-capitalist logics of spirit negotiations both challenged and legitimized large-scale land acquisition projects. The spirit was not subsumed by, but rather shaped, contemporary capitalist expansion in ways that call for a critical examination of the ontological certainty that all land is designed for human production and consumption.
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dc.relation (關聯) Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Vol.46, pp.593-610
dc.title (題名) The Spirits are Crying: Dispossessing land and possessing bodies in rural Cambodia
dc.type (資料類型) article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1111/anti.12073
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12073