Summary
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Globalization has profoundly affected both the ways of life and the livelihoods of indigenous peoples worldwide. The 12 original essays in this book are based on fieldwork conducted in India, China, Nepal and parts of the Himalaya-Hindukush region. In the first section the contributors explore the possibility of devising a more democratic and equitable alternative for indigenous peoples within the process of globalization. The essays in the second section discuss the changes in the social and economic systems of the indigenous peoples that have resulted from the transition to a market economy. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how new forms of community and continued non-market access to critical productive resources—for example, land and forests—would allow for a greater and more equitable spread of the benefits of globalization and simultaneously address some of its negative features including increased male domination.
Tourism and Forest Management among the Hani in Xishuangbanna, China
Tourism and Forest Management among the Hani in Xishuangbanna, China
The Setting
In the centuries before the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Xishuangbanna was ruled by Dai rulers in towns or fiefdoms (meng) occupying the lowland rice-growing valleys, while the vast mountain forests were the domain of Hani people and other migratory farming peoples practicing shifting cultivation. Much in the same way that the Dai paid allegiance to their nominal Chinese overlords, the Hani were historically under the authority of local Dai leaders, whose stilted wooden houses, settled villages and terraced rice fields they eventually came to emulate. In the early 1950s, the new Chinese people's government, under the twin policies of ‘all ...
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