"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.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- The Institutionalized Zomia
- The Manipulation of the Concept of Zomia
- 1 Introduction
- From Padi States to Commercial States
- Preliminary Remarks
- Nations and States or Nation-States?
- Inner Zomia and Globalization: the Other among the Self
- Ethnogenesis: Ethnic Minorities or Social Groups?
- Identity Construction in the Borderlands
- 2 Populations on the Move in the Borderlands of Northeast Cambodia
- Socio-Economic Changes and Identity Creation
- Irremediable Interferences
- International Linkages, Newcomers and Alternative Perspectives
- Theoretical Prospects
- Conclusion: the return of nomadic life
- 3 The Burmese ‘Adaptive Colonization’ of Southern Thailand
- Maxime Boutry
- Introduction
- Historical Background: the National Roots of International Migrations
- Rationale
- The Burmese Adaptive Colonization of Thailand
- Migrations, Exchanges and the Making of Borders
- The Perception of Borders and Segmentation of Migration
- Conclusion
- 4 The “Interstices”
- A History of Migration and Ethnicity
- How was the first Zomian created?
- Interactions and Segmentations
- The Creation of ‘Sea-Zomians’
- The Moken in Thailand
- The Moken in Myanmar
- Ethnogenesis: Fear of Slavery Versus Nomad Ideology
- The Moken in History: Ancient Interactions and Knowledge in Managing Difference
- The Inner Zomian
- Conclusion
- 5 Borders and Cultural Creativity
- The Case of the Chao Lay, the Sea Gypsies of Southern Thailand
- Introduction
- Are Borderlands Exclusively Administrative Features?
- Territory and Borderland as Manifold Concepts
- The Sea Gypsies in the Ethnoregional Social Fabric
- The Coast as a Borderland
- The Nomads and the Sea
- The Tenth Month Ceremony
- The Sea Gypsies and the National Borders
- Conclusion
- About the Authors
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Maps and Tables
- Map 1.1 Political map of Malay Peninsula
- Map 2.1 Ratanakiri Province
- Map 4.1 The Kra Isthmus and transpeninsular routes
- Table 4.1 Names of the sea nomads per country
- Table 4.2 Moken, Moklen and Urak Lawoi point of view
- Table 4.3 Moken demography in Myanmar (1998-2003)
- Table 4.4 Moken Demography in Myanmar (2007-2009)
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