Sea Nomads – The Orang Suku Laut
<p>The third episode of the<em> Corona Under the Ocean</em> chapter, featuring anthropology professor Cynthia Chou, is dedicated to the Orang Suku Laut, a nomadic community from the Malay world sea in Southeast Asia. Thanks to more than three decades of research, Cynthia Chou’s work brings us closer to the worldview and life practices of the Orang Suku Laut, for whom humans are just another element among the many creatures that inhabit oceans and land. Continually moved by the tides, their ancestral relationship with the environment not only puts many aspects of modern societies into question, but shows that another kind or relationship with the environment is possible, one that is reciprocal, cordial and without a hierarchy between the human and the nonhuman.</p>
Authors: Sonia Fernández Pan
Contributors: Cynthia Chou
Editors: Elena Zieser
Voiceover: Nathan Johnson
Musician: Stephen McEvoy
Researcher: Marion Ritzmann, Alice Wilke
TBA21–Academy Producer and Program Coordinator: María Montero Sierra
Technician: Esther Hunziker, TBA21–Academy, Mark Ferkul
Communication: Anna Francke, Katarina Rakuscek
Graphic Designer: Ana Domínguez Studio
Part of: Corona Under the Ocean