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Remaining Karen : a study of cultural reproduction and the maintenance of identity /
"This publication of Remaining Karen is intended as a tribute to Ananda Raja and his consummate skills as an ethnographer. It is also a tribute to his long-term engagement in the study of the Karen. Remaining Karen was Ananda Raja's first focused study of the Sgaw Karen of Palokhi in north...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU E Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Monographs in anthropology series.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Settlement history, headmanship, and the lord of the water, lord of the land
- Kinship, marriage, and domestic social organisation
- Village organisation and the sociology of production and consumption
- The economy of Palokhi: subsistence in a regional context
- Agricultural rituals: the ceremonial cycle in Palokhi
- Conclusion: cultural reproduction and the maintenance of identity
- Appendixes. The 'Au' Ma Xae ritual
- Labour expended on agricultural activities and co--operative labour exchanges in Palokhi (21 January 1981
- 31 December 1981)
- A note on work and wage work in Palokhi
- Swidden cultivation in Palokhi
- Crops grown in Palokhi Swiddens
- Wet-rice cultivation in Palokhi
- The agistment of buffaloes and cattle in Palokhi
- Examples of household budgets in Palokhi
- The origin of the Karen: an "official" history.