Unconscious culture and conscious nature: Exploring East Javanese conceptions of the person through Bourdieu's lens

摘要

Though staging an imaginary dialogue between French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and East Javanese informants, the paper explores anthropological processes of knowledge-making regarding the roots of social domination. The employment of an explicitly comparative framework is undertaken with the aim of revealing the frontier areas and outer limits of knowledge production and of cross-cultural translation in general. At the same time, it engages with 'indigenous' ways of knowing that emphasize embodied subjectivity and sensorial inter-involvement with others and the ambient world, and that posit the assumption that being a particular person and acting in a specific way are closely connected.