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Building community through hospitality : indirect obligations to reciprocate in a transnational speech community
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dc.contributor.author | Moreira Fians, Guilherme | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-14T17:30:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-14T17:30:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-08-19 | |
dc.identifier | 278144357 | |
dc.identifier | caf3dd14-5ad5-4db2-9fb5-ffa566c65c1f | |
dc.identifier | 85112856777 | |
dc.identifier.citation | 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 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1466-1381 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-5223-3362/work/109316555 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/25045 | |
dc.description | Funded by the University of Manchester and the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. | en |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.format.extent | 20 | |
dc.format.extent | 431676 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Ethnography | en |
dc.subject | Transnational community, indirect obligation | en |
dc.subject | Esperanto | en |
dc.subject | Hospitality | en |
dc.subject | Reciprocity | en |
dc.subject | Community-building | en |
dc.subject | Speech community | en |
dc.subject | Scale shift | en |
dc.subject | Internationality | en |
dc.subject | Nationality | en |
dc.subject | GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography | en |
dc.subject | GN Anthropology | en |
dc.subject | PM Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial languages | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | AC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GF | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GN | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PM | en |
dc.title | Building community through hospitality : indirect obligations to reciprocate in a transnational speech community | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of History | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/14661381211039451 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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