Talk:Mikea people

Comment
The Madagascar article says Bantu settlers may have been preceded by the Mikea hunter gatherers which suggests that Mikea is an ethnonym. But here it is defined as a social identity. Do they see themselves as a people/tribe and do they have a common origin?


 * Working on this now. More to come soon. - Lemurbaby (talk) 15:07, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Lifestyle
It is problematic to describe the Mikea as a "lifestyle" because the term is used in sociology to refer to modern societies, and specifically practices of defining identity through consumption within global commodity culture (see the work of Anthony Giddens and David Chaney in particular). Since the ethnic group in this case is traditional, the term is inappropriate in this context. While the term "subculture" is also often associated with modern youth-cultural social groups since the 1950s (as in Dick Hebdige's much-read book), it can be used in a more general ethnographic sense and given the nature of the social group being described seems to be a more apprpriate term in this case.

Dokoissho (talk) 15:05, 4 October 2020 (UTC) dokoissho