عنوان

Gifts, Belonging, and Emerging Realities Among 'Other Moluccans' During the Aftermath of Sectarian Conflict

Number

TL49795

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Gifts, Belonging, and Emerging Realities Among 'Other Moluccans' During the Aftermath of Sectarian Conflict

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Hatib Abdul Kadir

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Rutherford, Danilyn; Tsing, Anna

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Santa Cruz

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

264

Text of Note

Committee members: Ellen, Roy; Spyer, Patricia

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-67135-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Anthropology

Body granting the degree

University of California, Santa Cruz

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

This dissertation is an ethnographic work of the interethnic relationships between Butonese residents of the Moluccas with native Moluccans and ethnic Chinese Moluccans, specifically in the ways the Butonese deal with their identity as an "outsider" (pendatang) in the realm of urban marketplaces and exchanges commodities in the rural areas. The common ground of the relationship is based on debt and exchanges commodities. It is the nature of the debt and exchanges that brings the contravenes of the ethnic relationships. On the one hand, the Butonese have grateful feelings for the generosity of the native Moluccans in providing land for them to farm, but on the other hand, the Butonese feel they are exploited when it comes to reciprocity. Likewise, the Butonese need and rely on the roles of the Chinese traders to provide money and goods, but from their exchange experiences, the Butonese realize that ethnic Chinese have economic interests behind their various generosities. These exchanges lie in mutual suspicion, lack of trust, and trickery. This kind of paradox is historically exacerbated by the social context of a post-conflict society that has not accomplished peace and reconciliation in people's everyday interactions, thus the encounters between Butonese farmers with ethnic Chinese in the shops and the encounters between urban Butonese traders with native Moluccans in the marketplaces do not necessarily represent peace after the conflict, but rather a relationship that is built based on the pragmatic motives of reciprocity and ongoing mutual suspicions.

Cultural anthropology; Asian Studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Belonging;Gifts;Mollucans;Sectarrian conflict

Peyer, Matthew D.

Rutherford, Danilyn; Tsing, Anna

Subdivision

Anthropology

University of California, Santa Cruz

Call Number

2018389922; 10640844

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[Thesis]

276903

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