Sturgeon, Janet C.

Border landscapes : the politics of Akha land use in China and Thailand / Janet C. Sturgeon. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2005. - xi, 255 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Culture, place, and nature .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.

The production of border landscapes -- The production of marginal peoples and landscapes : resource access on the periphery -- The pr oduction of borders : sites for the accumulation and distribution of re sources -- Small border chiefs and resource control, 1910 to 1997 -- Premodern border landscapes under border principalities -- Lands cape plasticity versus landscapes of productivity and rule : Akha livel ihoods under nation-states.

0295985445 (hardback : alk. paper)

2005-016162

013301126 Uk


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.
Indigenous peoples--Ecology--China.
Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Thailand.


China--Boundaries.
Thailand--Boundaries.
China--Politics and government.
Thailand--Politics and government.

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