Alice Rudge
Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest
Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest
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Sensing Others explores the lives of Indigenous Batek people in Peninsular Malaysia, challenging essentialized notions of cultural and species difference and the separateness of ethical worlds. Alice Rudge argues that what counts as Otherness is always under negotiation, as people, plants, animals, and places can become familiar, strange, or both.
Format: Hardback
Length: 326 pages
Publication date: 01 October 2023
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Sensing Others delves into the lives of the Indigenous Batek people in Peninsular Malaysia, navigating the enigmatic and the novel terrain that exists at the border between a protected national park and an oil palm plantation. Despite the encroachment of their ancestral forests, the Batek people persist in striving to thrive amidst the unfamiliar Others they encounter: out-of-place animals, plants, traders, tourists, poachers, and forest guards. How the Batek people articulate their experiences of the harmonious and the peculiar in relation to these Others challenges the rigid dichotomies of cultural and species difference and the compartmentalization of ethical realms.
Drawing upon extensive, long-term ethnographic research with the Batek people, Alice Rudge contends that as individuals strive to make habitable a landscape that is perpetually in flux, the notion of Otherness is constantly in negotiation. The traditional dictum of anthropology, to "make the strange familiar, and the familiar strange," establishes a binary between the familiar and the Other, frequently portraying Indigenous lives as the quintessential Other to the "modern" worldview. However, thriving amidst precarity necessitates an ongoing negotiation of Otherness's ambivalences, as people, plants, animals, and places can all transition between familiarity and strangeness.
Sensing Others unveils that when viewed from the boundary, the definition of Otherness remains elusive.
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781496235466
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