From blood to fruit: Transcosmogenerational modernities in Akha Worlds of the Upper Mekong.
In this article, I introduce the concept of "transcosmogenerationality" to emphasize the sustained and dynamic significance of Ancestral relationalities to particular Indigenous modernities. I draw on the case of certain Akha communities in Southeast Asia and southwest China who are channeling wealt...
| Publicado en: | Anthropology & Humanism Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 1 - 16 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2025
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