The concept of cultural spatiality includes all aspects of human
agency, experiences and outside influences. As such, it encompasses
socio-culturally enacted localities, whether these are real,
imagined or only potential spheres of social, economic, religious,
symbolic, or political action. As in the case of the Hmong in
northern Thailand, people can be anchored via processes of place
making in local settlements, a diaspora spread over five continents
and also in the "other world" of the supernatural agents. The
concept of the Hmong Mountains signifies the "place" the Hmong
people have constituted to maintain their socio-cultural
distinctiveness despite statelessness. It is a mental model of the
Hmong lifeworld which has evolved during the course of a long
history of migration, dispersal and settlement in Thailand.
"Maren Tomforde" is Junior Research Fellow at the Bundeswehr
Institute for Social Sciences (SOWI) in Strausberg (Germany).
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