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The Akha, “Rife with Feasts”

open access: yes, 2016
The Akha constitute the relatively poor end of the hill tribe spectrum, but they have a wide range of feasts that employ the available surplus production. This chapter shows how Akha feasts support the economic, ritual, and sociopolitical organization of communities.
Brian Hayden
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A phonological comparison on Akha and Hani

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 1982
This article offers a phonological comparison of the distribution of vowels in Akha and Hani in closed and open syllables. A selected dialect of Hani from China is compared to Akha dialects from Burma and Thailand. The author describes and illustrates the behaviour of vowels in initial and final postions and in closed and open syllables.
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Meet the Akha - help the Akha?

2007
Die Idee von nachhaltigem Tourismus hat die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit erobert - auch in Laos. Doch wo Nachhaltigkeit, Armutsminderung und Partizipation prognostiziert sind, treten im Alltag komplexe Konflikte zwischen den lokalen Akteuren zu Tage. Hinter den Kulissen eines nachhaltigen Tourismus zeichnen sich Kämpfe um Ressourcen, um die Richtung ...
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Corinne Neudorfer: Meet the Akha - help the Akha? Minderheiten, Tourismus und Entwicklung in Laos

2021
ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 105 (2007): ASIEN (Oktober)
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