What’s (written) history for? On James C. Scott’s Zomia, especially Chapter 6½

Jean Michaud, “What’s (written) history for? On James C. Scott’s Zomia, especially Chapter 6½,” Anthropology Today, vol. 33, no. 1 (february 2017)

“Zomia. It sounds like a skin disease or some alarming bacteria. As it turns out, Zomia is a recently named space in Asia. As referred to in this article, Zomia encompasses the highlands of northeast India, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and southwest China. Within these countries resides a combined population of over 100 million1 individuals officially registered as ‘national minorities’ by each respective government. For anthropologists who might have spent the last few years on a solitary digging trip to North Korea or foraging for tasty ontologies in Amazonia, let me start by teasing apart the term Zomia a little more, before I weigh in further on the Zomia debate.”

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Sophie Hénon (2017, 15 mars). What’s (written) history for? On James C. Scott’s Zomia, especially Chapter 6½. Les carnets du CASE. Consulté le 29 mars 2024, à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/m86f

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