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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456837703321

Autore

Sturgeon Janet C

Titolo

Border landscapes [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of Akha land use in China and Thailand / / Janet C. Sturgeon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2005

ISBN

0-295-80173-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Culture, place, and nature

Disciplina

306.3/64/09513509152

Soggetti

Akha (Southeast Asian people) - Land tenure

Akha (Southeast Asian people) - Politics and government

Akha (Southeast Asian people) - Social conditions

Land use - China

Land use - Thailand

Landscape assessment - China

Landscape assessment - Thailand

Indigenous peoples - Ecology - China

Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Thailand

Electronic books.

China Boundaries

Thailand Boundaries

China Politics and government

Thailand Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The production of border landscapes -- The production of marginal peoples and landscapes : resource access on the periphery -- The production of borders : sites for the accumulation and distribution of resources -- Small border chiefs and resource control, 1910 to 1997 -- Premodern border landscapes under border principalities -- Landscape plasticity versus landscapes of productivity and rule : Akha livelihoods under nation-states.