La technologie symbolique chez les Moken. L’histoire d’un mo

Ivanoff, Jacques

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“…They are one of only a few groups in the world whose people live on boats (see Ivanoff et al 1997 and Sather 1997 for other examples). They are also culturally distinct from land-dwelling Bangladeshis (Ahmed 1962), and their lifestyle results in important ecological differences as well with respect to economic opportunities and child risk.…”

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Shodagor Family Strategies

Starkweather

2017

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The Shodagor of Matlab, Bangladesh, are a seminomadic community of people who live and work on small wooden boats, within the extensive system of rivers and canals that traverse the country. This unique ecology places particular constraints on family and economic life and leads to Shodagor parents employing one of four distinct strategies to balance childcare and provisioning needs. The purpose of this paper is to understand the conditions that lead a family to choose one strategy over another by testing predictions about socioecological factors that impact the sexual division of labor, including a family’s stage in the domestic cycle, aspects of the local ecology, and the availability of alloparents. Results show that although each factor has an impact on the division of labor individually, a confluence of these factors best explains within-group, between-family differences in how mothers and fathers divide subsistence and childcare labor. These factors also interact in particular ways for Shodagor families, and it appears that families choose their economic strategies based on the constellation of constraints that they face. The results of these analyses have implications for theory regarding the sexual division of labor across cultures and inform how Shodagor family economic and parenting strategies should be contextualized in future studies.

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2017

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“…It has been reported in the mass media that there are 6,000 Moken people living in three provinces in the Anadamant: Ranong, Phang-nga, and Phuket (https:// www.ethnologue.com/language/mwt). Moken studies are on-trend research topics among scholars in such fields as Anthropology, Sociology, and Linguistics Arunotai et al, 2006;Ivanoff, 1997;2001;Kraisame, 2016;2018;Larish, 1993;1999;Naw Say Bay, 1995;Pittayaporn, 2005;White, 1992. The Moken language is one of the endangered languages in Thailand. The native language is being replaced with Thai, a dominant language.…”

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Re-conceptualizing Toponyms as the Repository of Moken Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A Case Study of Surin Islands

2023

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Toponyms or place names are a crucial language component in every language. They usually represent topographic environment or cultural elements of specific groups or areas. Toponyms constitute the linkage between humans and the landscapes surrounding them. Further, toponyms are the repository of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of each individual group. Moken people in Surin Islands store various kinds of ecological knowledge in their Moken toponyms. In view of the foregoing, this research aims to disclose the repository of Moken people to illustrate the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) underpinning the toponyms. This study adopted the TEK framework as proposed by Jones (2016) to reveal the findings. This research is a qualitative study based on 94 toponyms in the Moken language and culture documentation project (Klatalay et al., 2013;Kraisame 2016;2018). Salient findings indicated that the structure of Moken toponyms consists of a primary element and a core element. Specifically, Moken people use lexicons relating to beach, rock/stone and coral, cape, island, and direction as topographical names in the primary element, whereas those relating to subsistence names, social names, memory names, and religio-spiritual names are used in the core element. Also reported in the study is that these elements correlate with the cultural landscape concept of Sauer (1969). In the light of these findings, it can be argued that toponyms are not simply names denoting places, but they constitute a repository of individual groups that carry the torch of knowledge from one generation to the next.

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La technologie symbolique chez les Moken. L’histoire d’un mo

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Shodagor Family Strategies

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Re-conceptualizing Toponyms as the Repository of Moken Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A Case Study of Surin Islands

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