Topic:
Rohingya, Ruili, ethnicity, jade trade, borderland, social-symbolic order, human- nonhuman
ဖော်ပြချက်/အကြောင်းအရာ:
"This paper addresses two questions pertaining to ethnicity. First, how do ethnic
identifications, alliances, and conflicts play out in social worlds hosting ingrained ethnic
hostilities? Secondly, how can we theorize the role of non-human agents in human conceptions
of ethnicity and constructions of social-symbolic orders? The discussion is based on events
related by Noor; a Rohingya man, who works as a jade trader in the border-town of Ruili in
China’s Yunnan province, opposite Myanmar’s Shan state. The paper describes Noor’s
motivations for fleeing Myanmar, his experience of Buddhist-Muslim conflicts, his work as a
jade trader, and his hobby as a fighting cock breeder. The final section discusses how Noor
conceptualizes his ethnic identity and position in a wider social-symbolic order hosting
antagonistic ethnic Others by making analogies between nonhuman agents and ethnic humans..."
ရင်းမြစ်:
"Department of Sociology, Lund University" (Lund)
Date of Publication:
2016-07-03
Date of entry:
2020-01-04
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
အကြောင်းအရာ/အမျိုးအစား:
Countries:
Myanmar
Geographic coverage:
Global
Language:
English
မှတ်တမ်း:
ပုံစံ:
pdf
အရွယ်အစား:
579.92 KB
Resource Type:
text
Text quality:
- Good