Space and the Production of Cultural Difference Among the Akha Prior to Globalization : Channeling the Flow of Life
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9789089643254
- ISBN-10: 9089643257
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: March 2012
- Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.25 pounds
- Page Count: 340
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