Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France
Garritt van Dyk
- Title
- Space and the Production of Cultural Difference among the Akha Prior to Globalization
- Subtitle
- Channeling the Flow of Life
- Author
- Deborah Tooker
- Price
- € 54,95 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789089643254
- Format
- Paperback
- Number of pages
- 344
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 29 - 03 - 2012
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Series
- ICAS Publications series
- Category
- Anthropology
- Discipline
- Asian Studies
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
Reviews and Features
"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
"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
Deborah Tooker
Space and the Production of Cultural Difference among the Akha Prior to Globalization
Channeling the Flow of Life
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.
Author
Deborah Tooker
Deborah E. Tooker is Chair of Anthropology, Criminology and Sociology and Director of the Anthropology Program at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, as well as Faculty Associate in Research at Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program.
