ISBN:
9789048514380
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (343 pages)
Series Statement:
ICAS Publications v.6
Parallel Title:
Print version Tooker, Deborah E Space and the Production of Cultural Difference among the Akha Prior to Globalization : Channeling the Flow of Life
DDC:
305.800951
Keywords:
Akha (Southeast Asian people)
;
Ethnology -- Southeast Asia
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Akha (Southeast Asian people)
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Ethnology ; Southeast Asia
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps, Tables, Figures and Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Akha Transcription, Akha Pronunciation Guide, and CAW Comparison chart -- 1 Bearings -- Overview of topic -- Theoretical bearings -- Ethnographic background on the Akha -- Akha zán as practice -- Akha imagined totalities and holistic conceptions of culture -- Material on which this book is based -- How this book proceeds -- 2 Moving Through History -- The historical production of a cultural complex -- History of the Akha in a regional context -- Identity formation in an interethnic context and the role of spatial practices -- History of Bear Mountain Village -- Settlers: the main sublineages of Bear Mountain Village -- Summary -- 3 Space and the Flow of Life -- Space and the notion of totality -- Akha socio-spatial domains -- 4 Spatializing the Upland Village Polity and its Alter, the Lowland Muang -- Upland-lowland relations -- Constructions of insiders and outsiders and changing modes of political relations -- The 'village' as a social construct -- Village as microcosmic totality -- The dzø̀ma as village 'owner' -- The diarchic nature of rule -- Village orientational schemes: level/sloped, upper/middle/lower, and the ' middle way' -- Two axes and the notion of totality -- Village orientational schemes: center-periphery -- The 'inside'-'outside' distinction -- Spatialization as a political technology: some analytic concepts -- A Hierarchy as encompassment -- B Aggregation of power -- C Dispersal of power -- D Boundary creation: outside the realm -- E Spatialization of the cosmos, potency, and Akha ' space-time' -- F Disruptions in the flow of potency and processes of exclusion -- Summary -- 5 Space and Fertility in House and Field -- Introduction -- The Akha household
Abstract:
Household fields -- Household 'owners': ancestors and the household heads -- Ancestral section and continuity -- Household 'owners' and lineal continuity -- The spatial construction of the Akha house: level/sloped, upper/middle/lower, and the 'middle way' -- Center-periphery, interior/exterior and household hierarchy -- Household 'owners' and spatialization as political process -- Cosmos -- From a raised center: the irrigation system as a concrete image for the flow of potency -- Disruptions in the flow of potency and processes of exclusion -- Summary -- 6 Chanting to Produce the Inside and Outside -- Introduction -- Inside and outside forces and 'potency' -- Introduction to spirit chanting of the inside and outside -- 'Inside' and 'outside' spirits -- Framework of an inside chanting -- Skeletal framework of an outside chanting -- Categories of outside chanting and the meaning of khè, 'opening' -- The pragmatic construction of the 'inside' and 'outside' -- 1 Spatialization -- 2 Temporalization -- 3 Referencing social entities -- 4 Exchange goods/ritual paraphernalia -- 5 Sacrificial animals -- 6 Other ritual procedures -- 7 Textual structure, speaking to inside and outside spirits -- The coding of potency: the pragmatic construction of the ' household' and 'village' -- Conclusion -- 7 Rethinking the Cosmic Polity -- Parallels in upland and lowland spatial coding of political domains, and alternative usages -- The village periphery and the reversal of lowland hierarchies -- Reversals of village hierarchies -- The form of ' cosmic polity' models -- Discussion and analysis: Critique of evolutionist approaches -- Critique of encompassment models of hierarchy -- Critique of semantic totalization: towards a pragmatic approach to ideology -- 8 Space, Life, and Identity -- Appendix A: Spirit Chanting of the Inside: Types of Ceremonies
Abstract:
Appendix B: Spirit Chanting of the Outside: Types of Ceremonies -- Akha Glossary -- Notes -- List of References -- English Language Index -- Akha Language Index -- Biographical Note about the Author -- Back Cover
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