Show simple item record

Files in this item

Thumbnail

Item metadata

dc.contributor.authorMoreira Fians, Guilherme
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-14T17:30:13Z
dc.date.available2022-03-14T17:30:13Z
dc.date.issued2021-08-19
dc.identifier278144357
dc.identifiercaf3dd14-5ad5-4db2-9fb5-ffa566c65c1f
dc.identifier85112856777
dc.identifier.citationMoreira 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/10.1177/14661381211039451en
dc.identifier.issn1466-1381
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-5223-3362/work/109316555
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/25045
dc.descriptionFunded by the University of Manchester and the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.en
dc.description.abstractAnthropologists 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.extent20
dc.format.extent431676
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEthnographyen
dc.subjectTransnational community, indirect obligationen
dc.subjectEsperantoen
dc.subjectHospitalityen
dc.subjectReciprocityen
dc.subjectCommunity-buildingen
dc.subjectSpeech communityen
dc.subjectScale shiften
dc.subjectInternationalityen
dc.subjectNationalityen
dc.subjectGF Human ecology. Anthropogeographyen
dc.subjectGN Anthropologyen
dc.subjectPM Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial languagesen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectACen
dc.subject.lccGFen
dc.subject.lccGNen
dc.subject.lccPMen
dc.titleBuilding community through hospitality : indirect obligations to reciprocate in a transnational speech communityen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Historyen
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/14661381211039451
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record