Space and the production of cultural difference among the Akha prior to globalization: channeling the flow of life

Based on the author's extensive fieldwork among the Akha people prior to full nation-state integration, this illuminating study critically reexamines assumptions about space, power, and the politics of identity, so often based on modern, western contexts. Tooker explores the active role that sp...

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1. Verfasser: Tooker, Deborah E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2012
Schriftenreihe:ICAS publications series
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Zusammenfassung:Based on the author's extensive fieldwork among the Akha people prior to full nation-state integration, this illuminating study critically reexamines assumptions about space, power, and the politics of identity, so often based on modern, western contexts. Tooker explores the active role that spatial practices have played in maintaining cultural autonomy. The book expands current debates about power relations in the region from a mostly political and economic framework into the domains of ritual, cosmology, and indigenous meaning and social systems
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Bearings -- Moving thorough history -- Space and the flow of life -- Spatializing the upland village polity and its alter, the lowland muang -- Space and fertility in house and field -- Chanting to produce the inside and outside -- Rethinking the cosmic polity -- Space, life, and identity
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (338 Seiten)
ISBN:9789048514380
DOI:10.1017/9789048514380

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