Entangled in Translation. Space and Emotions between See and Land, Starting from an Experience of Field-Work at Surin Island with Moken People.

The proposal of this paper is to work from the first findings of a field research experience at Surin Islands, Andaman Islands, Thailand, carried out last February, within a natural and national park, which is also home to villages of Moken peoples. From the point of view of maritime sociology and environmental humanities, we would like to show how the first findings and hypothesis connect to the theme of both emotions and spaces and relationship between sea and land space. We would therefore like to recount hypotheses and issues that emerge from this work, in relation precisely both to the theme of perception and emotions, and especially in relation to material objects, such as dwellings, boats, and the waste itself, within the village we visited. and in which we conducted the work experience with interviews and observations. Another point we are working on is to see how the dimension of the sacred (thinking of the classic works of Durkheim to Mauss to Douglas) emerges in this context and in the relationship between rituals, actions and material elements.