TY - BOOK AU - Bourdier,Frédéric AU - Boutry,Maxime AU - Ivanoff,Jacques TI - From Padi States to Commercial States: Reflections on Identity and the Social Construction Space in the Borderlands of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar T2 - Global Asia SN - 9789089646590 U1 - 959.05/3 PY - 2015///] CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Southeast Asia KW - Borderlands KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Government relations KW - Minorities KW - Anthropology KW - Asian Studies KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian KW - bisacsh KW - Zomian, identity construction, borderlands, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Populations on the Move in the Borderlands of Northeast Cambodia --; 3. The Burmese ‘Adaptive Colonization’ of Southern Thailand --; 4. The “Interstices” --; 5. Borders and Cultural Creativity --; About the Authors --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - “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 deterritorialized 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048523320?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048523320 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048523320/original ER -