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Abstract
James C. Scott claimed that upland Southeast Asians consider their good life as dependent on their autonomy from the state. Given that the state today is present in various forms in the uplands, current uplanders can be considered as post-Zomian. Staying and moving represent two contrastive values in this region whose realisation serves to make a good life possible. This article considers these values through the issue of resettlement in Laos, a situation in which local values intersect with or contradict government planning. Even in situations in which the state demonstrates its hegemony and force, ethnic Rmeet uplanders tend to stress their own agency. Therefore, resettlement and its avoidance may both appear as the realisation of local values, sometimes in the shape of 'village agency', as the good life is seen as life in a community.

AbstractIn upland Southeast Asia, the internal reproduction of society by ritual is fuelled and changed through its relation to external ritual systems like Buddhism. Rmeet (Lamet), a non-Buddhist upland population in Laos, regularly alter their rituals when Buddhist lowlanders are present. In particular, the display of spilling the blood of sacrificial animals is suppressed. One recurring reason for this is the notion of 'shame' or 'fear of exposure'. Thus, the notion of 'shame' functions as a semantic operator that indicates the shifting of boundaries between inside and outside, Rmeet and lowland ritual systems. It also addresses how the border between these two ritual domains historically became defined by blood-spilling. The argument is based on a new approach to ritual change that considers rituals as information-processing systems.

Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der transkulturellen Kommunikation zweier Mon-Khmer-sprachiger Gruppen in Nord-West Laos. Während über die eine Gruppe, die Samtao, bislang keine fundierte Forschung existiert, ist über die Khmu mehr Literatur zu finden. Khmu sind in Laos eine der größten ethnischen Gruppen, Samtao zählen zu den kleinsten. In Baan Hadnaleng, dem Dorf, in dem geforscht wurde, lässt sich festhalten, dass Khmu auf den ersten Blick das Dorfleben dominieren. Bei der Betrachtung der für die Dorfbewohner wichtigen Rituale und der Verwandtschaftssysteme wird jedoch klar, dass sich Khmu und Samtao in vielen Bereichen aufeinander zu bewegen. Außerdem haben sich die Samtao – anders als in anderen multi-ethnischen Dörfern, in denen sie sich eher den Gewohnheiten der anderen Gruppe, mit der sie zusammenleben, anpassen – eine Nische bewahrt, in der sie sich von den Khmu abgrenzen. In vielen Bereichen verläuft die Kommunikation in Baan Hadnaleng sogar in der Begrifflichkeit der Samtao. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich vor allem mit Fragen, die sich aus dieser Situation ergeben. Wie kreieren zwei so verschiedene ethnische Gruppen eine Dorfgemeinschaft? Und wie sieht diese aus? Dass Gemeinschaftsbildung für beide Gruppen sehr geschätzt wird, wurde von den Dorfbewohnern stets betont.

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