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

Deborah E. Tooker

doi:10.1017/9789048514380

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 reexamines assumptions about space, power, and the politics of identity, so often based on modern, western contexts. Tooker explores the active role that spatial practices have played in maintaining cultural autonomy. The book 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.

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Channeling the Flow of Life

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Dedication
pp 5-6

Contents
pp 7-10

List of Maps, Tables, Figures and Illustrations
pp 11-12

Preface
pp 13-14

Acknowledgments
pp 15-16

Note on Akha Transcription, Akha Pronunciation Guide, and CAW Comparison chart
pp 17-20

1 - Bearings
pp 21-46

2 - Moving Through History
pp 47-64

3 - Space and the Flow of Life
pp 65-72

4 - Spatializing the Upland Village Polity and its Alter, the Lowland Muang
pp 73-116

5 - Space and Fertility in House and Field
pp 117-156

6 - Chanting to Produce the Inside and Outside
pp 157-214

7 - Rethinking the Cosmic Polity
pp 215-238

8 - Space, Life, and Identity
pp 239-244

Appendix A - Spirit Chanting of the Inside: Types of Ceremonies
pp 245-248

Appendix B - Spirit Chanting of the Outside: Types of Ceremonies
pp 249-270

Akha Glossary
pp 271-280

Notes
pp 281-310

List of References
pp 311-320

English Language Index
pp 321-334

Akha Language Index
pp 335-338

Biographical Note about the Author
pp 339-340

Publications Series
pp 341-343

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