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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Op basis van uitgebreid veldwerk bij het Akha-volk (een bergvolk dat oorspronkelijk het zuiden van de Chinese provincies Yunnan en Guangjao bewoonde) werpt deze studie licht op de aannames die bestaan over ruimte, macht en de politieke identiteit, iets dat zo vaak wordt gebaseerd op moderne, westerse contexten. In ??n van de weinige antropologisch Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
