Space and the Production of Cultural Difference among the Akha Prior to Globalization

Based on the author''s extensive fieldwork among the Akha people prior to full nation-state integration, this illuminating study critically re-examines assumptions about space, power, and the politics of identity, so often based on modern, western contexts. Tooker explores the active role that spatial practices (and their indigenous link to a ''life force'') have played in maintaining cultural aut...