Ethnic Groups Across National Boundaries in Mainland SEA Southeast Asia / / 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 c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Archive eBook-Package 1970-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [1990]
©1990
Year of Publication:1990
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (127 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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