Social dynamics in the highlands of Southeast Asia : reconsidering Political systems of Highland Burma by E.R. Leach /

Social dynamics in the highlands of Southeast Asia : reconsidering Political systems of Highland Burma by E.R. Leach / / edited by François Robinne and Mandy Sadan.

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This reappraisal of Political Systems of Highland Burma , the seminal work by E.R. Leach, presents much new material on the highlands of Southeast Asia and its borders from writers with long-term research experience in these areas. The Introduction establishes in detail both the theoretical and regi...

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EUROSEAS Conference Paris, France)
TeilnehmendeR:
Robinne, François.
Sadan, Mandy.
EUROSEAS Conference
Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 3 Southeast Asia 18.
Physical Description:1 online resource (383 p.)
Notes:"This volume originated from a panel ... which was organised for the EUROSEAS Conference, held at the Sorbonne University, Paris, in September 2004" -- Pref.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / F. Robinne and M. Sadan
  • The biographical origins of political systems of Highland Burma / Robert Anderson
  • On the continuing relevance of E. R. Leach’s political systems of Highland Burma to Kachin studies / Maran La Raw
  • Translating Gumlau: History, the ‘Kachin’ and Edmund Leach / Mandy Sadan
  • Politico-ritual variations on the Assamese Fringes: Do social systems exist? / Philippe Ramirez
  • Naga ethnography and Leach’s oscillatory model of Gumsa and Gumlao / Pascal Bouchery
  • Interethnic systems and localized identities: The Khmu subgroups (Tmoy)in north-west Laos / Olivier Evrard
  • From Kettledrums to coins: Social transformation and the flow of valuables in northern Laos / Guido Sprenger
  • Political hierarchical processes among some highlanders of Laos / Vanina Bouté
  • Rethinking Kachin wealth ownership / Ho Ts’Ui-P’Ing
  • The missing share: The ritual language of sharing as a ‘total social fact’ in the eastern Himalayas (Northwest Yunnan, China) / Stéphane Gros
  • Transethnic social space of clans and lineages: A discussion of Leach’s concept of common ritual language / François Robinne
  • Postscript: Reconsidering the dynamics of ethnicity through Foucault’s concept of ‘spaces of dispersion’ / François Robinne and Mandy Sadan
  • Bibliography / F. Robinne and M. Sadan
  • Index / F. Robinne and M. Sadan.

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