Title Border landscapes : the politics of Akha land use in China and Thailand / Janet C. Sturgeon

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2005] ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Culture, place, and nature Culture, place, and nature. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index Notes Print version record Subject Akha (Southeast Asian people) -- Land tenure. Akha (Southeast Asian people) -- Politics and government. Akha (Southeast Asian people) -- Social conditions. Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- China. Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Thailand. Land use -- China. Land use -- Thailand. Landscape assessment -- China. Landscape assessment -- Thailand. China -- Boundaries. China -- Politics and government. Thailand -- Boundaries. Thailand -- Politics and government. Form Electronic book LC no. 2005016162 ISBN 0295801735 (electronic bk.) 9780295801735 (electronic bk.) (hardback ; alk. paper)

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