ABSTRACT

This article explores how changing environmental conditions and practices connect with shifting forms and valuations of sociality in a Ngaju Dayak village in the radically transformed peatlands of southern Borneo. It proposes that the production of values and social relations is indivisible from the production of a livelihood through material means and dwelling in the local environment. The article describes how changing Ngaju orientations to social life and the riverscape have been interlinked with fluctuations in the local valuescape. The focus is on two distinct but overlapping forms of organising sociality and labour in the riverine environment, and how they have influenced and been influenced by the dialectically conjoined Ngaju values of solidarity and autonomy, and, more recently, by emerging economic value. It is argued that the valuation of sociality crucially reflects the changing valuation of land and nature and related politics of value within the local riverscape. Finally, the article shows that the radically transformed riverine environment sets limits on (imagining) environmental practices, forms of sociality, and how they are valued.

摘要

本文探讨了在婆罗洲南部被彻底改造的泥炭地的Ngaju Dayak村，不断变化的环境条件和实践与社会形态的变化和评估如何联系在一起。它提出，通过物质手段和居住在当地环境中，价值和社会关系的生产与生计的生产是不可分割的。这篇文章描述了改变Ngaju对社会生活和河流景观的取向如何与当地价值景观的波动相互联系。重点是在河流环境中组织社会和劳动的两种截然不同但重叠的形式，以及它们如何受团结和自治的辩证结合的Ngaju价值观以及最近出现的经济价值的影响。有人认为，社会性的评价至关重要地反映了当地河景中土地和自然的评价的变化以及相关的价值政治。最后，该文章表明，经过彻底改造的河流环境对（构想）环境实践，社会形式及其价值方式设置了限制。