Space and the Production of Cultural Difference among the Akha Prior to Globalization: Channeling the Flow of Life - Couverture souple

Tooker, Deborah E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9089643257 ISBN 13 : 9789089643254

Editeur : Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

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 (and their indigenous link to a 'life force') have played in maintaining cultural autonomy in an historically migratory, multi-ethnic context. 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. It is one of the few book-length anthropological studies of peoples of the Southwest China/Northern Southeast Asia borderlands.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Deborah E. Tooker is Chair of Anthropology, Criminology and Sociology and Director of the Anthropology Program at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, as well as Faculty Associate in Research at Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Op basis van uitgebreid veldwerk bij het Akha-volk (een bergvolk dat oorspronkelijk het zuiden van de Chinese provincies Yunnan en Guangjao bewoonde) werpt deze studie licht op de aannames die bestaan over ruimte, macht en de politieke identiteit, iets dat zo vaak wordt gebaseerd op moderne, westerse contexten. In één van de weinige antropologisch

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9089643257
• ISBN 13: 9789089643254
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible