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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

Label
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
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
From padi states to commercial states
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
1066188764
Responsibility statement
Frédéric Bourdier, Maxime Boutry, Jacques Ivanoff and Olivier Ferrari
Series statement
Global Asia, 3Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Sub title
reflections on identity and the social construction of space in the borderlands of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar
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.--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- Populations on the move in the borderlands of Northeast Cambodia : socio-economic changes and identity creation / Frédérc Bourdier -- The Burmese 'adaptive colonization' of Southern Thailand / Maxime Boutry -- The "interstices" : a history of migration and ethnicity / Jacques Ivanoff -- Borders and cultural creativity : the case of the Chao Lay, the sea gypsies of Southern Thailand / Olivier Ferrari
Content
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