In between the Cosmos and “Thousand-Cubed Great Thousands Worlds”: Composition of Uncommon Worlds by Alexander von Humboldt and King Mongkut

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  • Atsuro Morita

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.59.2.t05

Mots-clés :

espace interstitiel, « monde unique », régime politique mandala, cosmos, Thaïlande, ontologies indigènes

Résumé

De récents travaux universitaires sur des politiques indigènes ont mis en lumière les imbrications complexes entre la science, la bureaucratie, les mouvements sociaux et les pratiques cosmologiques qui sont susceptibles de se produire lors de la rencontre entre des pratiques Indigènes et des pratiques modernes de gestion environnementale. Ces travaux ont montré comment les puissantes opérations de la science et de la bureaucratie, instanciant l'ontologie occidentale, ont éliminé les ontologies Indigènes des sphères publiques, comme celles où sont élaborées les politiques. Le pouvoir réducteur d'une ontologie moderne qui suppose « un monde unique » (one-world world), pour emprunter l'expression de John Law (2011), est facilement visible dans ces ethnographies de rencontres ontologiques. À partir de faits ayant eu lieu en Thaïlande au 19e siècle, alors que le monde unique moderne était en pleine redéfinition à partir de nouvelles infrastructures d'observation scientifique, cet article aborde certaines des conséquences ontologiques de ces rencontres.

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Morita, A. (2017). In between the Cosmos and “Thousand-Cubed Great Thousands Worlds”: Composition of Uncommon Worlds by Alexander von Humboldt and King Mongkut. Anthropologica, 59(2), 228–238. https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.59.2.t05

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