From Padi States to Commercial States : : Reflections on Identity and the Social Construction Space in the Borderlands of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar / / Jacques Ivanoff, Maxime Boutry, Frédéric Bourdier, Olivier Ferrari.

“Zomia” is a term coined in 2002 to describe the broad swath of mountainous land in Southeast Asia that has always been beyond the reach of lowland governments despite their technical claims to control. This book expands the anthropological reach of that term, applying it to any deterritorialized pe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Global Asia ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (168 p.) :; 12 color plates, 3 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Populations on the Move in the Borderlands of Northeast Cambodia
  • 3. The Burmese ‘Adaptive Colonization’ of Southern Thailand
  • 4. The “Interstices”
  • 5. Borders and Cultural Creativity
  • About the Authors
  • Bibliography
  • Index