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Title: | Gifting, dam(n)ing and the ambiguation of development in Malaysian Borneo |
Authors: | Chua, L |
Keywords: | ambiguation;Christianity;development;gifting;Malaysian Borneo |
Issue Date: | 6-Dec-2014 |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Citation: | Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology: (2016), 81(4): 735 - 757 |
Abstract: | This article seeks to move beyond the critical politicizing impulse that has characterized anthropologies of development since the 1990s towards a more open-ended commitment to taking seriously the diverse moral and imaginative topographies of development. It explores how members of four small Bidayuh villages affected by a dam-construction and resettlement scheme in Sarawak draw on both historically inflected tropes of gifting and Christian moral understandings in their engagements with Malaysia's peculiar brand of state-led development. These enable the affected villagers not to resolve the problems posed by Malaysian developmentalism, but to ambiguate them and actually hold resolution at bay. I conclude by considering the implications of such projects of ambiguation for the contemporary anthropology of development. |
URI: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00141844.2014.986152 https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9645 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2014.986152 |
ISSN: | 0014-1844 1469-588X |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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