Pub Date : 2019-12-21DOI: 10.2218/thj.v1.2019.4188
J. Wouters
Zomia, in the sense exulted by James C. Scott (2009) as an abode of purposeful political anarchy and anti-stateism, is not an emic conceptualization, not a particular place or an incantation of a collective identity referred to or professed by particular populations of humans. As a spatial and social reality, or as a word-concept, Zomia, then appears an exercise in scholarly magical realism (evidence is ‘thin’, ‘limited’, and ‘ambiguous’, as Victor Lieberman (2010: 339) puts it more discreetly). It is a form of geographical and historical imagination that nevertheless has begun to ‘escape’ the narrow corridors of the academy and into public discourse where it now lives a life of its own. It is an original imagination no doubt – an optic that stimulates fresh scholarship – but one simultaneously cannot escape that Zomia-disciples are letting their imagination run away with them.
詹姆斯·c·斯科特(James C. Scott, 2009)将Zomia视为有目的的政治无政府状态和反国家主义的居所，它不是一个主题概念，不是一个特定的地方，也不是特定人群提及或宣称的集体认同的咒语。作为一个空间和社会现实，或者作为一个词的概念，Zomia出现在学术魔幻现实主义(证据是“薄的”、“有限的”和“模糊的”，正如Victor Lieberman(2010: 339)更谨慎地说的那样)。它是一种地理和历史想象的形式，尽管如此，它已经开始“逃离”学术的狭窄走廊，进入公共话语，在那里它现在有了自己的生活。毫无疑问，这是一种原创的想象——一种激发新学术的视觉——但同时，人们也无法逃避，zomia的门徒们让他们的想象力随他们而去。
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The anxieties to produce good research work is inherent in academia. Particularly, in the social sciences, research work that requires fieldwork and demands an encounter with the larger society that is outside one’s respective departments and the university produces various kinds of experiences and feelings. Among anthropologists, one can be lost in the field, fall in love, get frustrated, or go native. Yet, the tension between capturing what one witnesses during fieldwork and the producing a piece of work that contains a sharp theoretical analysis and an introspective narrative is often challenging. This essay is not a prescriptive note about methodology, but it is rather my attempt to reflect about doing fieldwork and the circumstances under which we carry out research work in Northeast India.
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