%0 Journal Article
%T A Triad of Confrontation: State Discipline, Buddhist Purification, and Indiscipline as a Local Strategy in Central Vietnam
%A Edyta Roszko
%J Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
%@ 1552-5414
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0891241618758854
%X In the village of Sa Hu£¿nh, state, fishers, and Buddhist clergy draw from semiotic ideologies but often employ a common political language, rarely agreeing on its meaning. Highlighting different structural positions and goals of social actors, I argue that binary oppositions exist but are not mutually exclusive, ever-lasting or antagonistic, as they shift in unexpected ways across the triadic relationship between state officials, fishers, and Buddhist clergy. By exposing the extent of improvisation and legitimation tactics, I show that religious practices are co-produced locally by the state through its diverse agents and agencies, by religious reformers through their purifying discipline, and by various categories of villagers who use indiscipline as a local tactic when acting on behalf of their gods
%K religion
%K state
%K semiotic ideology
%K purification
%K indiscipline
%K Buddhism
%K Central Vietnam
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0891241618758854