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The egalitarian turn? Mentawaian’ animism, forest extraction, and politic redistribution on Siberut Island, Indonesia
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SYSNO ASEP 0564158 Druh ASEP A - Abstrakt Zařazení RIV Záznam nebyl označen do RIV Zařazení RIV Není vybrán druh dokumentu Název The egalitarian turn? Mentawaian’ animism, forest extraction, and politic redistribution on Siberut Island, Indonesia Tvůrce(i) Darmanto, Darmanto (OU-W) ORCID Rok vydání 2022 Poč.str. 202 s. Forma vydání Tištěná - P Akce EuroSEAS Conference /12./ Datum konání 28.06.2022 - 01.07.2022 Místo konání Paris Země FR - Francie Typ akce WRD Jazyk dok. eng - angličtina Země vyd. FR - Francie Klíč. slova the Mentawai ; animism ; sabulungan ; egalitarianism ; forest ; redistribution ; Siberut Obor OECD 5.9 Other social sciences Institucionální podpora OU-W - RVO:68378009 Anotace Siberut Island (West Sumatra, Indonesia) has been continuously targeted for logging, forest estate, plantation, and other large-scale resource extraction platform. These extractive activities have reconfigured the relationship between the Mentawai, the indigenous inhabitant of Siberut, and their nature, especially the forest. In Mentawai's animism (sabulungan) ontology, humans and the spirits have a primordial pact in which the spirits occupy the forest and are invisible to humans. They are living in separate domains and constantly maintaining reciprocal relations where no parties feel dominated. The egalitarian principle of sabulungan generates an ambivalent attitude toward and compels the living Mentawai to have both respect and fear of, the spirits in the forest. Half-century large-scale logging operations intensified the idea that forest is a just commodity and marginalized the traditional view. However, experiencing forest transformation and the introduction of environmentalism and indigeneity discourse have reified the concept of the forest and revitalized the fundamental aspect of sabulungan politic: egalitarian ethic and equal share of forest extraction. The Mentawai do not overtly reject large forest exploitation but continuously protest, accuse, and resent timber companies because they do not provide an equal share of fortune and, instead, generate social differentiation. I argue that the egalitarian ethic of sabulungan serves a political-economy discourse for the Mentawai in the struggle to gain equal redistribution and shapes their attempt to maintain autonomy and political equality amidst hierarchal social relations brought by a new mode of accumulation. I claim that the Mentawai animism poses an egalitarian ethic which is important in the discussion of political redistribution. Pracoviště Orientální ústav Kontakt Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950 Rok sběru 2023
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