Space and the Production of Cultural Difference among the Akha Prior to Globalization

Channeling the Flow of Life

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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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 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-03-29
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt585 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieICAS Publications series
Antal sidor344
FörlagAmsterdam University Press
ISBN9789089643254

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Space and the Production of Cultural Difference Among the Akha Prior to Globalization - 1 Table of Contents - 8 List of Maps, Tables, Figures and Illustrations - 12 Preface - 14 Acknowledgments - 16 Note on Akha Transcription - 18 1 Bearings - 22 2 Moving Through History - 48 3 Space and the Flow of Life - 66 4 Spatializing the Upland Village Polity and its Alter, the Lowland Muang - 74 5 Space and Fertility in House and Field - 118 6 Chanting to Produce the Inside and Outside - 158 7 Rethinking the Cosmic Polity - 216 8 Space, Life, and Identity - 240 Appendix A: Spirit Chanting of the Inside: Types of Ceremonies - 246 Appendix B: Spirit Chanting of the Outside: Types of Ceremonies - 250 Akha Glossary - 272 Notes - 282 List of References - 312 English Language Index - 322 Akha Language Index - 336 Biographical Note about the Author - 340

"This is the best ethographic account of one of the most conspicuous and well-known upland groups in Southeast Asia. It is an excellent contribution to the study of space, ritual and cosmology in this region and beyond." -- Guido Sprenger, Heidelberg University</.b>, Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 30 (2), 2015 "Relying on decades of fieldwork, this brilliant book focuses primarily on the myriad ways in which the Akha conceptual construction of space provided these tribal people with a sense of their own cosmic power and centrality, despite their actual political weakness and marginality. This exemplary work is not only a moving evocation of a unique culture, it is also is a sophisticated re-examination of the multiple meanings of‘center’ and ‘periphery’ in Southeast Asian studies, and in anthropological theory. " -- Charles Lindholm, Boston University