Affects, ceremonial gift-givings and social structures

Affects, dons cérémoniels et structures sociales

Emmanuel Pannier (1)

1 PALOC - Patrimoines Locaux et Gouvernance

This article proposes to describe and analyze a central emic notion of contemporary Vietnamese society, the tình cảm, which refer to the emotional charge involved in a relationship. This affect is described through the lens of the flow of ceremonial gifts which constitute one of the principal means of expressing tình cảm in northern rural Vietnam. By testing the Spinozist approach of Lordon in The society of affects (2013), this paper shows how tình cảm are expressed, how they are a driver of social action and in which social structures they are produced.

Mots clés: social relation; Social relationship; Social Structure; gift-giving

Mots clés: Vietnam; Frédéric Lordon; rapports sociaux; don; obligation; affect

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Emmanuel Pannier. Affects, dons cérémoniels et structures sociales : Figures et expressions des tình cảm en milieu rural au nord du Vietnam. Tsantsa. Revue de la Société Suisse d'Ethnologie / Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Ethnologischen Gesellschaft / Journal of the Swiss Ethnological Society, 2018, 23, pp.33-42. ⟨hal-02167081⟩