From Padi States to Commercial States: Reflections on Identity and the Social Construction Space in the Borderlands of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar

Author:   Frédéric Bourdier ,  Maxime Boutry ,  Jacques Ivanoff ,  Olivier Ferrari
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781041179849


Pages:   158
Publication Date:   01 December 2025
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From Padi States to Commercial States: Reflections on Identity and the Social Construction Space in the Borderlands of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar


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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 deterritorialised 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.

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Author:   Frédéric Bourdier ,  Maxime Boutry ,  Jacques Ivanoff ,  Olivier Ferrari
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9781041179849


ISBN 10:   1041179847
Pages:   158
Publication Date:   01 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: from Padi States to Commercial States, 2 Populations on the Move in the Borderlands of Northeast Cambodia, 3 The Burmese 'Adaptive Colonization' of Southern Thailand, 4 The Interstices: A History of Migration and Ethnicity, 5 Borders and Cultural Creativity: the Case of the Chao Lay, the Sea Gypsies of Southern Thailand, 6. Bibliography, Index, About the authors

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Maxime Boutry is an independent scholar who received his PhD in social anthropology and ethnology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 2007. Jacques Ivanoff is an anthropologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research Frédéric Bourdier is an anthropologist at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in Marseille. Olivier Ferrari is associate researcher at the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia in Bangkok and lecturer at the Lausanne University in Switzerland.

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