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: Bourdier, Frédéric (Author), Boutry, Maxime (Author), Ivanoff, Jacques (Author), Ferrari, Olivier (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Series:Global Asia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 3.
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