ABSTRACT

In this article, I explore how Marind communities in West Papua experience and interpret hunger. Drawing from Indigenous discourse and practice, I examine how agro-industrial expansion and commodified foodways provoke multiple, conflicting hungers among Marind – for sago, “plastic” foods, money, and human flesh. In tandem, Marind themselves are subjected to the insatiable appetite of various invasive entities – corporations, the government, roads, cities, and oil palm. I argue that hunger constitutes a symbolically charged, culturally constructed, and morally laden experiential mode through which Marind characterize and contest capitalist modernity and its more-than-human dynamics of eating and being eaten.

摘要

在本文中，我探讨了西巴布亚的马林德社区如何体验和解释饥饿。从土著话语和实践中，我研究了农业工业扩张和商品化的饮食方式如何在马林德之间引发多重、相互冲突的饥饿——对西米、“塑料”食品、金钱和人肉。与此同时，马林德自身也受到各种入侵实体的贪得无厌的胃口——公司、政府、道路、城市和油棕。我认为，饥饿构成了一种象征性的、文化建构的、道德负载的体验模式，马林德通过这种模式表征和对抗资本主义现代性及其超越人类的吃和被吃动态。