Space and the production of cultural difference among the Akha prior to globalization : channeling the flow of life / Deborah E. Tooker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tooker, Deborah E., author.

Series:

ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 6.

ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Akha (Southeast Asian people)--Thailand, Northern--Social life and customs.

Akha (Southeast Asian people).

Space and time--Political aspects.

Space and time.

Space and time--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-319) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-003-70412-3

1-04-078961-7

1-280-66699-4

9786613643926

90-485-1438-X

9781003704126

OCLC:

811490860