Graves, ruins, and belonging: towards an anthropology of proximity*

摘要: This article uses ethnographic material collected around Lake Mutirikwi in southern Zimbabwe, to explore how the affective presence of graves and ruins, which materialize past present occupations engagements with/in landscape (by different clans, colonial postcolonial state institutions, war veterans, chiefs, spirit mediums, as well white commercial farmers), are entangled complex, localized contests over autochthony belonging, even they finely implicated wider reconfigurations authority state-craft. Situating these highly contested assertions, discourses, practices context national redefinitions citizenship belonging articulated by ZANU PF's rhetoric ‘patriotic history’, this explores made real through consequential materiality milieu. Although central hook will be prominent role that graves, both ancestral ‘mapa’ recent burials, have played ongoing claims land authority, its main perspective on different, overlapping, intertwined notions enabled, constrained, structured place, thereby emphasizing proximity discourses derives from shared nature landscapes. In vein, ruins occupation interventions comingle coexist with resurgent appeals local clans territories occupied lands. The broader theoretical purpose is engage debates anthropology's so-called ‘ontological turn’ make a case for focusing less ‘radical ontological difference’ more material, historical, conceptual proximities. Resume A partir de materiaux ethnographiques recueillis autour du Lac Mutirikwi, dans le sud cet la facon dont tombes et ruines, materialisant les interactions presentes passees avec paysage (institutions coloniales postcoloniales, anciens combattants, chefs, spirites fermiers blancs), s'intrique une complexe concurrence locale l'autochtonie l'appartenance, tout en relevant d'une reconfiguration plus large l'autorite force l'Etat. Pour situer ces affirmations, discours pratiques tres contestes contexte redefinition nationale citoyennete l'appartenance formule par rhetorique « l'histoire patriotique » ZANU-PF, l'auteur comment rivalites se manifestent travers materialite Bien que l'argument soit eminent des tombes, « mapa »ancestrales aussi bien qu'inhumations recentes, revendications terre l'autorite, l'article sera principalement consacrea differentes chevauchant s'interpenetrant, sont eveillees, contraintes structurees lieux, mettant ainsi l'accent sur proximite entre decoulant partagee paysages materiels. Dans cette veine, ruines datant l'occupation passee Blancs leurs coexistent appels renouveles locaux reapproprier territoires ancestraux terres occupees, melent ceux-ci. Plus largement, but theorique est contribuer aux recents debats pretendu « virage ontologique » l'anthropologie, afin plaider pour l'on s'interesse moins « difference ontologique radicale » davantage rapprochements materiels, historiques conceptuels