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Building community through hospitality : indirect obligations to reciprocate in a transnational speech community

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19/08/2021
Author
Moreira Fians, Guilherme
Keywords
Transnational community, indirect obligation
Esperanto
Hospitality
Reciprocity
Community-building
Speech community
Scale shift
Internationality
Nationality
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
GN Anthropology
PM Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial languages
T-NDAS
AC
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Anthropologists largely draw on the theoretical assumption that the interactional practices underlying hospitality are akin to those of gifting. Yet, by focussing on the giving and receiving of hospitality, such scholarship has failed to address these exchanges’ third element: reciprocating. Faced with this, this article reflects on travelling among Esperanto speakers in France, aiming to grasp how hospitality gains prominence in turning people into fully fledged Esperanto speakers through promoting intercultural, multilingual and cross-border exchanges. Asking what Mauss, Pitt-Rivers and Sahlins would have written about reciprocity had they come across backpackers, couchsurfers and Esperanto speakers, I explore why reciprocity and hospitality are vital for the existence of the Esperanto speech community and, more broadly, what is the place of reciprocity in hospitality. From the ethnography presented, I argue that hospitality can also emerge as a community-building mechanism, stemming from indirect obligations to reciprocate that may paradoxically constitute both short-lived dyadic relationships and long-standing communities.
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Moreira Fians , G 2021 , ' Building community through hospitality : indirect obligations to reciprocate in a transnational speech community ' , Ethnography , vol. OnlineFirst , pp. 1-20 . https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381211039451
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Ethnography
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381211039451
ISSN
1466-1381
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Journal article
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Copyright © 2021 The Author. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14661381211039451.
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