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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.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Dritte Abteilung, Südostasien ; ; 18. Bd.Publication details: Leiden, the Netherlands : Brill, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (lii, 331 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789047420620
  • 9047420624
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social dynamics in the highlands of Southeast Asia.DDC classification:
  • 305.895 22
LOC classification:
  • DS528.2.K3 E87 2004
Other classification:
  • 73.06
  • EL 7950
  • LB 40400
  • LB 48400
  • MS 1277
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface (François Robinne and Mandy Sadan); List of Contributors; Introduction: Notes on Edmund Leach's analysis of Kachin society and its further applications (F.K.L. Chit Hlaing (F.K. Lehman)); Part One 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); Part Two Comparative Approaches in Assam and Laos.
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Summary: Drawing on long term fieldwork and research in communities from Assam through to Laos, this book offers a different level of reappraisal of the work of Edmund Leach and offers a significant contribution to the development of a new regional anthropology of Southeast Asia.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface (François Robinne and Mandy Sadan); List of Contributors; Introduction: Notes on Edmund Leach's analysis of Kachin society and its further applications (F.K.L. Chit Hlaing (F.K. Lehman)); Part One 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); Part Two Comparative Approaches in Assam and Laos.

Drawing on long term fieldwork and research in communities from Assam through to Laos, this book offers a different level of reappraisal of the work of Edmund Leach and offers a significant contribution to the development of a new regional anthropology of Southeast Asia.

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