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Social dynamics in the highlands of Southeast Asia : reconsidering Political systems of Highland Burma by E.R. Leach
- Title
- 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.
- Author
- EuroSEAS Conference (2004 : Paris)
- Publication
- Leiden, the Netherlands : Brill, 2007.
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- Description
- lii, 331 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Series Statement
- Handbook of oriental studies. Section 3, Southeast Asia, 0169-9571 ; v. 18
- Uniform Title
- Handbuch der Orientalistik. Dritte Abteilung, Südostasien ; 18. Bd.
- Subject
- Leach, E. R. 1910-1989. > Congresses
- Leach, Edmund Ronald 1910-1989
- Leach, E. R. 1910-1989
- Leach, E. R. 1910-1989
- Leach, Edmund Ronald
- Laikos Orthodoxos Synagermos
- Kachin (Asian people) > Social life and customs > Congresses
- Kachin (Asian people) > Politics and government > Congresses
- Ahoms (Indic people) > Social life and customs > Congresses
- Social structure > Burma > Case studies > Congresses
- Ahoms (Indic people) > Social life and customs
- Kachin (Asian people) > Social life and customs
- Social structure
- Ethnosoziologe
- Kachin Volk
- Politisches System
- Soziales System
- Sozialanthropologie
- Politieke stelsels
- Sociale structuur
- Kachin
- Assam
- Kachin (Asian people) > Social life and customs > Congresses
- Kachin (Asian people) > Politics and government > Congresses
- Ahoms (Indic people) > Social life and customs > Congresses
- Social structure > Burma > Case studies > Congresses
- Burma
- Südostasien
- Birma
- Assam
- Yunnan > Nordwest
- Himalaja > Ost
- Zuidoost-Azië
- Oost-Azië
- Kachin <Volk>
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Case studies.
- Études de cas.
- Note
- "This volume originated from a panel ... which was organised for the EUROSEAS Conference, held at the Sorbonne University, Paris, in September 2004"--Preface.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : notes on Edmund Leach's analysis of Kachin society and its further applications / F.K.L. Chit Hiding and F.K. Lehman -- pt. 1. Historical Contexts of E.R. Leach's fieldwork -- 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 -- pt. 2. Comparative Approaches in Assam and Laos -- 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 Boute -- pt. 3. The Kachin subgroups -- 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) / Stephane Gros -- Transethnic social space of clans and lineages : a discussion of Leach's concept of common ritual language / Francois Robinne -- Postscript : reconsidering the dynamics of ethnicity through Foucault's concept of 'spaces of dispersion' / Francois Robinne and Mandy Sadan.
- ISBN
- 9789004160347
- 9004160345
- LCCN
- 2007298875
- OCLC
- ocn141384090
- 141384090
- SCSB-14480082
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library