Border landscapes
Subtitle: the politics of Akha land use in China and Thailand
By: Janet C. Sturgeon.
Series: Culture, place, and nature
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Akha (Asian people) -- Land tenure.; Akha (Asian people) -- Politics and government.; Akha (Asian people) -- Social conditions.; Land use -- China.; Land use -- Thailand.; Landscape assessment -- China.; Landscape assessment -- Thailand.; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- China.; Indigeous peoples -- Ecology -- Thailand.; China -- Boundaries.; Thailand -- Boundaries.; China -- Politics and government.; Thailand -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The production of border landscapes; title: The production of marginal peoples and landscapes : resource access on the periphery; title: The production of borders : sites for the accumulation and distribution of resources; title: Small border chiefs and resource control, 1910 to 1997; title: Premodern border landscapes under small principalities; title: Landscape plasticity versus landscapes of productivity and rule : Akha livelihoods under nation-states.