Social dynamics in the highlands of Southeast Asia : reconsidering Political systems of Highland Burma by E.R. Leach /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, the Netherlands :
Brill,
2007.
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Colección: | Handbuch der Orientalistik. Südostasien ;
18. Bd. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.