| Description |
1 online resource (270 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; List of Maps; Introduction Montagnard Domain in the South-East Asian Massif; Chapter One Migrants, Runaways and Opium Growers: Origins of the Hmong in Laos and Siam in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Chapter Two A Historical Panorama of the Montagnards in Northern Vietnam under French Rule; Chapter Three The Western Protestant Missionaries and the Miao in Yunnan and Guizhou, Southwest China; Chapter Four The Karens: Loyalism and Self-determination |
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Chapter Five Sedentarization and Selective Preservation among the Montagnards in the Vietnamese Central HighlandsChapter Six Emergence of a Leading Group: A Case Study of the Inter-Ethnic Relationships in the Southern Shan State; Chapter Seven Changing Patterns of Economics among Hmong in Northern Thailand 1960-1990; Chapter Eight The Impact of Trekking Tourism in a Changing Society: A Karen Village in Northern Thailand; Chapter Nine Traditional Tribal What? Sports, Culture and the State in the Northern Hills of Thailand; Index |
| Summary |
Scattered across the South-East Asian massif, a few dozen ethnic groups (numbering around 50 million) maintain highly original cultural identities and political and economic traditions, against pressure from national majorities. They face the same challenges. The means by which social change has been imposed by the lowlanders are similar from country to country, and the results are comparable. The originality of this book lies in the combination of multi-disciplinary mixing of social anthropology, history and human geography; multi-culturality grouping together several cultural contexts; tr |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ovesen, Jan
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| ISBN |
9781136827815 |
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1136827811 |
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