@article{oai:kobe-cufs.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002581,
 author = {BADENOCH, Nathan and BADENOCH, Nathan},
 journal = {研究年報, Journal of Research Institute},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {application/pdf, The Bit people of northern Laos sometimes refer to themselves as the People of the Fishing Hook. This is a curious autonym for an upland ethnic group in Southeast Asia, who are most commonly known as forest people, with complex indigenous knowledge systems and worldviews encoded in their diverse languages. As livelihoods become increasingly stressed as a result of socio-economic and ecological transformations, the importance of local languages and local knowledge is paramount for their survival. This paper explores the fishing knowledge and practices of the Bit people of northern Laos – a rural population of approximately 2,400 people speaking an Austroasiatic language – discussing the confluence of history, livelihoods, social relations and construction of identity that can be observed through their language, language ideologies and linguistic practices. The prominence of fish is striking in the social, natural and cosmological worlds of the Bit. The natural and social ecologies of upland river systems differ from those of the lowland areas, and have remained unstudied. This paper is an investigation of the entanglements between technology, community and ritual, with a particular interest in how these social institutions are encoded in the Bit language. As a broad ethnographic study, the paper explores: representations of Bit identity, which are tied up with fishing, fish-naming practices, gender marking in aquatic lifeforms, mapping of technology to community institutions, linguistic clues to riverine cultural contact, taboos in linguistic change and expressive language used to describe fish., Villanova University},
 pages = {37--64},
 title = {Fishing the Uplands: A Linguistic Perspective on the Ethno-Ichthyology of Northern Laos},
 volume = {61},
 year = {2021}
}