New #CuHeMo blog post online!
It explores the evolving lifestyle of the #Moken on Surin Island between a #semi-nomadic past and sedentary future🏝️⛵
Governments around the world have long pressured Indigenous groups into #sedentarization — often in the name of climate adaptation & nature conservation.

Chao Lay, Sea Nomads, Sea Gypsies? – On the problems of (self-)descriptions in ethnographic fieldwork | CuHeMo

My latest blog post for the CuHeMo Project (Cultural Heritage in Motion) #Moken #ClimateChange #CuHeMo

www.cuhemo.org/2024/12/17/c...

Chao Lay, Sea Nomads, Sea Gypsies? – On the problems of (self-)descriptions in ethnographic fieldwork | CuHeMo

How we name marginalized groups shapes how we perceive them. Terms like #seaNomads carry outsider biases that obscure the lived realities of communities like the Chao Lay in #Thailand
Check out this blog post by my colleague Lukas Husa from the #CuHeMo project: www.cuhemo.org/2024/12/17/c...