Ethnic Groups Across National Boundaries in Mainland SEA Southeast Asia / / ed. by Gehan Wijeyewardene.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Archive eBook-Package 1970-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bauer, Christian,; Lilley, Rozanna,; Miles, Douglas,; Rajah, Ananda,; Satyawadhna, Cholthira,; Tapp, Nicholas,; Wijeyewardene, Gehan,
• HerausgeberIn: Wijeyewardene, Gehan,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [1990]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 1990
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (127 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Contributors --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction Definition, Innovation, and History --; Language and Ethnicity The Man in Burma and Thailand --; Thailand and the Tai Versions of Ethnic Identity --; A Comparative Study of Structure and Contradiction in the Austro-Asiatic System of the Thai-Yunnan Periphery --; Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Nation-State The Karen in Burma and Thailand --; Capitalism and the Structure ofYao Descent Units in China and Thailand A Comparison ofYouling (1938) and Pulangka (1968) --; Squatters or Refugees Development and the Hmong --; Afterword "Ethnicity" and Anthropology --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789814379366; 9783110606690
• DOI: 10.1355/9789814379366
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Gehan Wijeyewardene.

The six essays on specific ethnic groups are written by five anthropologists and a linguist, all of whom have had long experience in the region. They cover a range of data and problems which should be of interest to all scholars of Southeast Asia, as well as those interested in ethnic identity and contemporary social and political processes. The essays sample groups according to a conventional division of the peoples of Southeast Asia -- those that live in the plains (the Thai and the Mon), the middle slopes (the Lua and the Karen), and the high mountains (the Hmong and the Yao). This gives adequate coverage of the field, but the essays also help break down the confinement of such categories. The concluding essay looks at the data presented in the book in the framework of contemporary anthropological theory.