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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790371503321
• Autore: Tooker Deborah E.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-66699-4; 9786613643926; 90-485-1438-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: ICAS publications series. Monographs ; ; 6
• Disciplina: 305.800951
• Soggetti: Akha (Southeast Asian people) - Thailand, Northern - Social life and customs; Space and time - Political aspects; Space and time - Psychological aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-319) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.