From padi states to commercial states : reflections on identity and the social construction of space in the borderlands of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar / Frédéric Bourdier, Maxime Boutry, Jacques Ivanoff and Olivier Ferrari.
"Zomia" is a term coined in 2002 to describe the broad swath of mountainous land in Southeast Asia that has always been beyond the reach of lowland governments despite their technical claims to control. This book expands the anthropological reach of that term, applying it to any deterritor...
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Global Asia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
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| Summary: | "Zomia" is a term coined in 2002 to describe the broad swath of mountainous land in Southeast Asia that has always been beyond the reach of lowland governments despite their technical claims to control. This book expands the anthropological reach of that term, applying it to any deterritorialised people, from cast-out migrants to modern resisters-in the process finding new ways to understand the realities of peoples and ethnicities that refuse to become part of the modern state. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (157 pages) : maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index. |
| ISBN: | 904852332X 9789048523320 |