Buddhism and coffee: the transformation of locality and non-human personhood in Southern Laos

Among Jru' (Loven) uplanders in southern Laos, three different ecologies intersect. Animism focuses on local non-human persons like rice and earth spirits. Cash cropping elaborates translocal relationships with foreigners and technology, but reduces the extent of non-human personhood. Buddhism...

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Main Author: Sprenger, Guido 1967- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Institution July 2018
In: Sojourn
Year: 2018, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 265-290
Further subjects:B Subsistence economy
B Buddhism
B Socio-cultural change
B Animism
B Agriculture
B Coffee
B Laos
B Structural change