Being and Becoming : : Embodiment and Experience among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra / / Ramsey Elkholy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Elkholy, Ramsey,
• MitwirkendeR: Ingold, Tim,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Illustrations --; Foreword --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Situating Subjectivity --; PART I INTERSUBJECTIVITY --; Chapter 1 Into the Field: The Orang Rimba at Sungai Gelumpang --; Chapter 2 Sociality and the Negotiation of Self and Other --; Chapter 3 Touch and the Mutual Constitution of Selves and Others --; Chapter 4 Forest, Village, and the Significance of Movement --; PART II BODY AND WORLD --; Chapter 5 A Journey to Kemumu --; Chapter 6 Becoming a Hunter --; Chapter 7 Becoming in the Forest --; Chapter 8 Shamanism and the Textures of the Universe --; Chapter 9 Melangun --; Epilogue --; Orthography and Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785331602; 9783110998221
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785331602?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ramsey Elkholy.

For the Orang Rimba of Sumatra – and tropical foragers in general – life in the forest engenders a kind of “connectedness” that is contingent not only on harmonious relations between people, but also between people and the non-human environment, including those supernatural agencies of the forest that people depend on for their spiritual and emotional wellbeing. Exploring this world, anthropologist Ramsey Elkholy treats embodied action and perception as the basis of shared experience and shows how various forms of embodied experience constitute the very foundations of human culture. In a unique methodological contribution, Elkholy adopts a set of body-centered approaches that reflect and capture the day-to-day, moment-to-moment ways in which people engage with the world. Being and Becoming is an important contribution to phenomenological anthropology, hunter-gatherer studies, and to Southeast Asian ethnography more generally.