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Space and the Production of Cultural Difference Among the Akha Prior to Globalization
Channeling the Flow of Life
Résumé
Based on the author's extensive fieldwork among the Akha people prior to full nation-state integration, this illuminating study critically re-examines assumptions about space, power, and the politics of identity, so often based on modern, western contexts. Tooker explores the active role that spatial practices (and their indigenous link to a 'life force') have played in maintaining cultural autonomy in an historically migratory, multiethnic context. Space and the Production of Cultural Difference Among the Akha Prior to Globalization: Channeling the Flow of Life 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.
Détails de l'édition
- ISBN-13
- 9789089643254
- ISBN-10
- 9089643257
- EAN
- 9789089643254
- Éditeur
- Amsterdam U.P. (Amsterdam)
- Date de publication
- 1 janvier 2012
- Langue
- en
- Pages
- 338
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
Provenance des données
- dimensions BnF Catalogue général · 23 juillet 2026
- language Google Books · 13 août 2026
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- publication_date BnF Catalogue général · 23 juillet 2026
- subtitle Open Library · 2 août 2026
- summary Google Books · 13 août 2026
- title Google Books · 13 août 2026