ABSTRACT As part of the national consolidation of Thailand in the early twentieth century, various hinterland populations were actively marginalized and dispossessed. Anthropology and other scholarship normalized this racialized dispossession through notions of highland people’s essential difference from lowland society. Two fantasies in particular cemented notions of highland otherness: ethnographic notions of autonomous and egalitarian ethnic communities, and heterosexual male notions of sexually loose and available non-Thai women. A comparative and regional approach to sexuality and politics suggests a very different reality. Across Southeast Asia, certain customs suggest a shared focus on the benefits of being well attached across differences, for women and for communities. Such customs have been obscured by anthropological and other convictions about culture and ethnicity. This case insists on the importance of customs that have encouraged good attachment and the negotiation of diversity, as common across Southeast Asia and as also shaped by the human bio-cultural evolutionary heritage.

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亚洲高地的良好依恋：质疑“散妇”和“自治社区”的概念

摘要 作为 20 世纪初泰国国家巩固的一部分，各种腹地人口被积极地边缘化和剥夺。人类学和其他学术通过高地人与低地社会的本质区别的概念使这种种族化的剥夺正常化。两个幻想特别巩固了高地差异性的概念：自治和平等的种族社区的民族志概念，以及性放宽和可用的非泰国女性的异性恋男性概念。对性和政治的比较和区域方法表明了一个非常不同的现实。在整个东南亚，某些习俗表明，人们共同关注跨差异、对妇女和社区的好处。这些习俗已被人类学和其他关于文化和种族的信念所掩盖。这个案例强调了鼓励良好依恋和多样性谈判的习俗的重要性，这在东南亚很普遍，也受到人类生物文化进化遗产的影响。