Learning to be mountaineer : Ethnography of education of the Akha through Christian orphanages in contemporary Thailand
2012
Abstract
Drawing on Bourdieu's concepts of cultural capital, symbolic violence and habitus in conjunction with Appadurai's concept of imagined worlds, this article describes three worlds that generate the dispositions of Akha children, which help us better understand the resistance of the Akha students from Christian Homes: the Akha parents and village, the Christian children's home, and the state as represented by the school system.