Abstract: This paper discusses several events that have shaped the lives and communities of the Jingpo people in Southwest China since the 21st century. While a single event has its own logics as a result of subjective choices and social forces, but being placed side by side with life time events and social history, it can appear anonymous and irrelevant. Anonymity refers to the unspeakable pain, inexplicable sentimentality and nostalgia, not in words, but in tones and eyes, and in the atmosphere and temperament of the entire community. Anonymity is manifested as a new disease that is incurable and has not yet been named. Disconnection stems from the breakdown of the relationship between man and land, from the increasingly dysfunctional marriage system and dissipation of the moral world. The old gods left but the new ones have not yet arrived. People are dominated by desires but unable to fulfil them. This "nothingness" brings confusion and decadence of the people, and anxiety of the community. The handling of "nothingness" reflects the transcendence of society and the mystery of life, underscoring a period when the old structure is disappearing and the new one is slowly burgeoning. It is a time that people are subjected to moral suspension. Thus, to understand the flow of events and erratic life experience, we need to ground ourselves on a structural-functional way of thinking, however, no less importantly, we also need to investigate the entanglement between people's desires, feelings, effects, motivations and their societal surroundings.

Key words: anonymity, disconnect, self and spirituality, Kachin