ABSTRACT

This paper explores the concepts of value and sociality in the lives of human subjects living in the village of Ara, South Sulawesi, Indonesia in the 1980s. Every individual engaged in several forms of sociality that were associated with different sets of values. As members of noble houses and kingdoms, they interacted with nonhuman subjects such as ancestor spirits and valued their ascribed social rank. As Muslims living in a cosmos structured as a great chain of being, they interacted with nonhuman subjects, such as God, angels, jinn, and the spirits of dead mystics and valued individual salvation. As citizens of Indonesia, they interacted only with other human subjects and as citizens of a nation that valued modernity and development. Individual social actors manoeuvered among these symbolic complexes in accordance with the values they were pursuing at any one point in time and were often able to strategically convert the symbolic capital they accumulated in one field of activity into a form of symbolic capital valued in another.

摘要

本文探讨了1980年代居住在印度尼西亚南苏拉威西省Ara村的人类生活中的价值和社会观念。每个人都参与几种与不同价值观念相关的社交形式。作为贵族和王国的成员，他们与祖先精神之类的非人类主体互动，并珍视其归属的社会地位。穆斯林生活在一个由大生命链条构成的宇宙中，他们与非人类主体互动，例如上帝，天使，吉恩以及死去的神秘主义者的精神和珍贵的个人救赎。作为印度尼西亚公民，他们只与其他人类主体互动，并作为重视现代性和发展的国家的公民互动。