This article studies volunteer tourism by following the trajectories of a non-human actor. Based on fieldwork at a Nepalese orphanage and drawing on insights from the material semiotics of Actor–Network Theory, we describe how the louse interferes as an unexpected actor with volunteer tourism at the orphanage. This post-human approach decentres the volunteer and destabilises the host–guest binary while adding to our understanding of tourism practices as complex and materially distributed endeavours. We analyse two configurations of head lice enacted through a modern morality of hygiene and Nepalese everyday life and show how they are deployed, contested and reconfigured onsite by volunteer tourism actors. By exploring patterns of absence and presence and using the concept of ontological choreography as an analytical resource, we show how the situated lice work of human and non-human actors at the orphanage offers new ways to grasp the forging of volunteer experiences and subjectivities.

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虱子工作：志愿旅游中的非人类轨迹

本文通过遵循非人类演员的轨迹研究志愿旅游。基于尼泊尔一家孤儿院的实地考察，并从演员-网络理论的实质符号学中汲取的见解，我们描述了虱子如何以意外的演员身份干扰孤儿院的自愿旅游。这种后人类的方法分散了志愿者的注意力，破坏了接待客人和宾客的关系，同时加深了我们对旅游业作为复杂且物质分布的努力的理解。我们分析了通过现代卫生道德和尼泊尔人日常生活制定的头虱的两种形态，并展示了志愿旅游演员在现场如何部署，竞争和重新配置它们。通过探索缺席和存在的模式，并使用本体编排的概念作为分析资源，