Download or read book The Akha written by Jim Goodman and published by Art Media Resources. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their unusual boundary gates, annual Swing Festival and exotic costumes, the Akha are one of the most colorful mountain-dwelling peoples in Southeast Asia. Over the centuries they have developed a rich and complex culture that provides customs and behavioral rules for all of life's possible contingencies. Originating in China's Yunnan Province, the Akha spread into Vietnam, Laos, Burma and Thailand and in recent generations have been subjected to the vicissitudes of war, revolution and modernization. In spite of such pressure they have managed to maintain the basic values and tenets of a thousand-year-old tradition.

Download or read book Border Landscapes written by Janet C. Sturgeon and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories of landscape change and land use among communities who call themselves Akha (known as Hani in China) in contrasting political contexts. She shows how, over the last century, processes of state formation, construction of ethnic identity, and regional security concerns have contributed to very different outcomes for Akha and their forests in China and Thailand, with Chinese Akha functioning as citizens and grain producers, and Akha in Thailand being viewed as "non-Thai" forest destroyers. The modern nation-state grapples with local power hierarchies on the periphery of the nation, with varied outcomes. Citizenship in China helps Akha better protect a fluid set of livelihood practices that confer benefits on them and their landscape. Denied such citizenship in Thailand, Akha are helpless when forests and other resources are ruthlessly claimed by the state. Drawing on current anthropological debates on the state in Southeast Asia and more generally on debates on property theory, states and minorities, and political ecology, Sturgeon shows how people live in a continuous state of negotiated boundaries - political, social, and ecological. This pioneering comparison of resource access and land use among historically related peoples in two nation-states will be welcomed by scholars of political ecology, environmental anthropology, ethnicity, and politics of state formation in East and Southeast Asia.

Download or read book The Akha Journal of the Golden Triangle written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Akha, Asian people in Southeast Asia; chiefly based on Akhas in Northern Thailand.

Download or read book Everyday Life in Southeast Asia written by Kathleen M. Adams and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these engaging essays describe personhood and identity, family and household organization, nation-states, religion, popular culture and the arts, the legacies of war and recovery, globalization, and the environment. Throughout, the focus is on the daily lives and experiences of ordinary people. Most of the essays are original to this volume, while a few are widely taught classics. All were chosen for their timeliness and interest, and are ideally suited for the classroom.

Download or read book The Art of Not Being Governed written by James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length from any organized state society For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states. In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of “internal colonialism.” This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott’s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.

Download or read book Southeast Asian Tribes Minorities and Nations Volume 2 written by Peter Kunstadter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major source of political instability in Southeast Asia has been ethnic diversity and the lack of congruence between ethnic distributions and national boundaries. Here twenty specialists base their papers largely on original field work in Burma, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Contrary to the usual picture of tribal people as isolated, homogeneous, stable, and conservative, the papers show tribesmen are often a dynamic force in the modern history of Southeast Asian states. Descriptions of tribal life and government programs, together with charts, tables, maps, and photographs give a wealth of data. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book Cry Freedom written by Akha Heritage Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Akha, Asian people in Southeast Asia; chiefly based on Akhas in Northern Thailand.

Download or read book Akha Oral Literature written by Paul White Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ethnic Groups in Laos written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Akha people, Alak people, Bit people, Brau people, Bru people, Ch t people, Dai people, Hill tribe (Thailand), Hmong people, Kaleun people, Katang people, Katu people, Khmuic peoples, Khmu people, Khuen people, Kongsat, Kucong, Kuy language, Lamet people, Laotian Chinese, Lao Lom, Lao Loum, Lao people, Lao Sung, Lao Theung, List of ethnic groups in Laos, Lua people, Mal people, Miao people, Mlabri people, Mon people, O Du people, Pacoh people, Peopling of Laos, Phai people, Phuan people, Phunoi people, Saek people, Si La people, Tai Daeng people, Tai Dam people, Tai-Kadai-speaking peoples, Tai-Kadai ethnic groups in Southeast Asia, Ta Oi people, White Tai, Xinh Mul people, Xinh Mun people, Yoy people.

Download or read book Khosana written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Moving Mountains written by Jean Michaud and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mountainous borderlands of socialist China, Vietnam, and Laos are home to some seventy million minority people of diverse ethnicities. In Moving Mountains, anthropologists, geographers, and political economists with first-hand experience in the region explore these peoples' survival strategies, as they respond to unprecedented economic and political change. Although highland peoples are typically represented as marginalized and powerless, this volume argues that ethnic minorities draw on culture and ethnicity to indigenize modernity and maintain their livelihoods. This unprecedented glimpse into a poorly understood region shows that development initiatives must be built on strong knowledge of local cultures in order to have lasting effect.

Download or read book From Blood to Fruit written by Micah Francis Morton and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dissertation I highlight the development of a movement beginning in the 1980s to promote a pan-ethnic identity among some 730,000 Akha, a transnational minority living in the Upper Mekong Region crossing the borders of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), China, Laos and Vietnam. Until recently Akha maintained elaborate practices of Ancestor veneration. However, faced with a growing number of conversions to Christianity and, to a lesser extent, Buddhism, some Akha elites, self-declared "Neo-Traditionalists," have reworked their Ancestral burden into the "Akha Religion" in order to ensure their survival as a distinct people and promote a larger Akha World. These elite have produced the Akha Religion in reference and yet opposition to Christianity. The product of their efforts is a seemingly paradoxical indigenous religion with a trans-local outreach, cosmopolitan ambitions, and yet exclusive orientation to Akha and Akha alone. I describe the Akha World as a non-state space nevertheless shaped in the likeness and image of the state. Akha elite have employed a number of state-making technologies in forging this world. These technologies have included transforming Akhaness from an oral to a literate culture, creating a unified orthography, reforming and standardizing culture, inventing transregional traditions, producing symbolic markers of translocal Akhaness, and generating a standardized historical narrative. These elite have been adamant in representing the Akha World as a "non-territorial" or "virtual" space equally molded by their common bonds of ethnic kinship and divergent experiences of nationalism. Elite have been constrained both by their lack of any state of their own and their firm positioning in different states. I introduce the term "crypto-nationalism" to describe Akha elites' identitarian productions which, while largely mimetic of the national, have nevertheless been framed as something other than the national. I argue that contrary to conventional thought, transnational identitarian formations such as those of the Akha and other minorities are often rooted not in the failure but rather the success of nation states in crafting ethnicity as an ever salient marker of collectivities within a national framework. My work thus builds on and challenges previous understandings of ethnic formations in a national and transnational context

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif written by Jean Michaud and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif offers hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on approximately 200 groups; the six countries where they reside, their leaders, and their political, economic, social, cultural, and religious traits. The chronology identifies important events, and the introduction examines both the diversities and similarities of the groups' ethnicities, languages, religious practices, and customs. The bibliography provides resources for further reading."--Jacket.

Download or read book Meet the Akhas written by Jim Goodman and published by White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand). This book was released on 1996 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peoples of the Golden Triangle written by Paul White Lewis and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the mysterious region of Southeast Asia known as the Golden Triangle has exerted a powerful hold over the Western imagination. Today it continues to figure in world news because of the infamous traffic in opium and heroin. Yet this fascinating area is also of considerable interest for a different reason: within it live six culturally distinct peoples - the Karen, Hmong, Mien, Lahu, Akha and Lisu - struggling to maintain the integrity of their beliefs and way of life against all the pressures of the rapidly changing society around them.

Download or read book Plants and People of the Golden Triangle written by Edward Anderson and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2009-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the half million people living in the remote mountains of Northern Thailand, survival is dependent upon the forest. This study, based on extended field research, identifies more than 1,000 plant species, with particular emphasis on medicinal plants and their uses. This book is only available through print on demand. All interior art is black and white.

Download or read book Last Days of the Mighty Mekong written by Brian Eyler and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Its basin is home to more than 70 million people and has for centuries been one of the world's richest agricultural areas and a biodynamic wonder. Today, however, it is undergoing profound changes. Development policies, led by a rising China in particular, aim to interconnect the region and urbanize the inhabitants. And a series of dams will harness the river's energy, while also stymieing its natural cycles and cutting off food supplies for swathes of the population. In Last Days of the Mighty Mekong, Brian Eyler travels from the river's headwaters in China to its delta in southern Vietnam to explore its modern evolution. Along the way he meets the region’s diverse peoples, from villagers to community leaders, politicians to policy makers. Through conversations with them he reveals the urgent struggle to save the Mekong and its unique ecosystem.