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

Space and the Production of Cultural Difference among the Akha Prior to Globalization : : Channeling the Flow of Life / / Deborah E. Tooker.

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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 sp...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
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Tooker, Deborah E.,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:ICAS Publications ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (343 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Maps, Tables, Figures and Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Akha Transcription
  • 1. Bearings
  • 2. Moving Through History
  • 3. Space and the Flow of Life
  • 4. Spatializing the Upland Village Polity and its Alter, the Lowland Muang
  • 5. Space and Fertility in House and Field
  • 6. Chanting to Produce the Inside and Outside
  • 7. Rethinking the Cosmic Polity
  • 8. Space, Life, and Identity
  • Appendix A: Spirit Chanting of the Inside: Types of Ceremonies
  • Appendix B: Spirit Chanting of the Outside: Types of Ceremonies
  • Akha Glossary
  • Notes
  • List of References
  • English Language Index
  • Akha Language Index
  • Biographical Note about the Author

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