Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction : ethnicity against state
  • state against ethnic diversity? / Mikael Gravers 2. Constructing and contesting the category 'Kachin' in the colonial and post-colonial Burmese state / Mandy Sadan 3. Reshaping Karenni-ness in exile : education, nationalism and being in the wider world / Sandra Dudley 4. Some remarks upon ethnicity theory and Southeast Asia, with special reference to the Kayah and the Kachin / F. K. L. Chit Hlaing 5. Mapping the Kachin political landscape : constructing, contesting and crossing borders / Karin Dean 6. Ceasefires and civil society : the case of the Mon / Ashley South 7. Who are the Shan? : an ethnological perspective / Takatani Michio 8. Christianity and Chin identity / Lian H. Sakhong 9. Conversion and identity : religion and the formation of Karen ethnic identity in Burma / Mikael Gravers.