ABSTRACT This study explores ecocultural meaning systems and practices among villagers in Oman within the context of globalising neoliberal material-symbolic discourses. Our analysis illustrates ways in which villager understandings of ecological relations are rooted in traditional agricultural practices, cultural values, and spirituality. We identify themes that are fundamental to enduring traditional Omani ecoculture, including a core premise of kinship-in-place, and contrast these with recently introduced but increasingly dominating transnational capitalist premises in Oman including a premise of agriculture as a purely economic activity that is sustained by mechanisation and competitiveness. We examine the symbolic and material tensions between these contrasting ways of being.

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从亲属到商品：阿曼转型中的生态文化关系

摘要 本研究在全球化的新自由主义材料符号话语的背景下探索了阿曼村民的生态文化意义系统和实践。我们的分析说明了村民对生态关系的理解植根于传统农业实践、文化价值观和精神的方式。我们确定了对持久阿曼传统生态文化至关重要的主题，包括亲属关系的核心前提，并将这些主题与阿曼最近引入但日益占主导地位的跨国资本主义前提进行对比，包括将农业作为一种可持续的纯粹经济活动的前提通过机械化和竞争力。我们研究了这些对比鲜明的存在方式之间的象征性和物质性张力。