| Space and the Production of Cultural Difference Among the Akha Prior to Globalization: Channeling the Flow of Life Contributor(s): Tooker, Deborah (Author) |
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ISBN: 9089643257 ISBN-13: 9789089643254 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press OUR PRICE: $60.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| Series: Aup - Icas Publications |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.25 lbs) 344 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
