"All Akha Are Hani, but Not All Hani Are Akha”: State-Minority Articulations of the “Nation” in the Sino-Southeast Asian Borderlands

Abstract

Though they seem to invoke an origin in a historical past with which they continue to correspond, actually identities are about questions of using the resources of history, language and culture in the process of becoming rather than being: not ©who we are© or ©where we came from©, so much as what we might become, how we might have been represented and how that bears on how we might represent ourselves