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Author Sturgeon, Janet C., author

Title Border Landscapes : the Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, Nov. 2007

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations
Series Culture, Place, and Nature Ser
Culture, Place, and Nature Ser
Contents The production of border landscapes -- The production of marginal peoples and landscapes : resource access on the periphery -- The production of borders : sites for the accumulation and distribution of resources -- Small border chiefs and resource control, 1910 to 1997 -- Premodern border landscapes under border principalities -- Landscape plasticity versus landscapes of productivity and rule : Akha livelihoods under nation-states
Summary In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, 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
Audience Trade University of Washington Press
Subject Akha (Southeast Asian people) -- Land tenure
Akha (Southeast Asian people) -- Politics and government
Akha (Southeast Asian people) -- Social conditions
Land use -- China
Land use -- Thailand
Landscape assessment -- China
Landscape assessment -- Thailand
Ethnoecology -- China
Ethnoecology -- Thailand
Boundaries
Ethnoecology
Land use
Landscape assessment
Politics and government
SUBJECT China -- Boundaries
Thailand -- Boundaries
China -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024153
Thailand -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86002109
Subject China
Thailand
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780295987637
0295987634