TY - JOUR
T1 - A triad of confrontation:
T2 - State discipline, Buddhist purification and indiscipline as a local strategy in Central Vietnam
AU - Roszko, Edyta
PY - 2019/4/1
Y1 - 2019/4/1
N2 - In the village of Sa Huỳnh, state, fishers, and Buddhist clergy draw from semiotic ideologies but often employ a common political language, rarely agreeing on its meaning. Highlighting different structural positions and goals of social actors, I argue that binary oppositions exist but are not mutually exclusive, ever-lasting or antagonistic, as they shift in unexpected ways across the triadic relationship between state officials, fishers, and Buddhist clergy. By exposing the extent of improvisation and legitimation tactics, I show that religious practices are co-produced locally by the state through its diverse agents and agencies, by religious reformers through their purifying discipline, and by various categories of villagers who use indiscipline as a local tactic when acting on behalf of their gods.
AB - In the village of Sa Huỳnh, state, fishers, and Buddhist clergy draw from semiotic ideologies but often employ a common political language, rarely agreeing on its meaning. Highlighting different structural positions and goals of social actors, I argue that binary oppositions exist but are not mutually exclusive, ever-lasting or antagonistic, as they shift in unexpected ways across the triadic relationship between state officials, fishers, and Buddhist clergy. By exposing the extent of improvisation and legitimation tactics, I show that religious practices are co-produced locally by the state through its diverse agents and agencies, by religious reformers through their purifying discipline, and by various categories of villagers who use indiscipline as a local tactic when acting on behalf of their gods.
UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0891241618758854
U2 - 10.1177/0891241618758854
DO - 10.1177/0891241618758854
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0891-2416
VL - 48
SP - 183
EP - 208
JO - Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
JF - Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
IS - 2
ER -