Space and the Production of Cultural Difference among the Akha Prior to Globalization: Channeling the Flow of Life
Deborah Tooker, "Space and the Production of Cultural Difference among the Akha Prior to Globalization: Channeling the Flow of Life "
English | ISBN: 9089643257 | 2012 | 344 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 9089643257 | 2012 | 344 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.