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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: EuroSEAS Conference Paris, France
Otros Autores: Robinne, François, Sadan, Mandy
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, the Netherlands : Brill, 2007.
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.