Mien Relations : Mountain People and State Control in Thailand /

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Thailand's hill tribes have been the object of anthropological research, cultural tourism, and government intervention for a century, in large part because these groups are held to have preserved distinctive ethnic traditions despite their contacts with "modern" culture. Hjorleifur Jo...

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Main Author: Hjorleifur Jonsson
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Minoritetspolitik > Thailand.
Bergsfolk > Thailand.
Yao > Südostasien
Bergvolk
Minderheitenpolitik
Nationale Minderheit
Politik
Staat
Ethnische Identität
Minorities > Government policy.
Ethnic relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Montagnards > Thaïlande (Nord) > Relations avec l'État.
Yao (Peuple d'Asie du Sud-Est) > Identite ethnique > Thaïlande (Nord)
Yao (Peuple d'Asie du Sud-Est) > Thaïlande (Nord) > Relations avec l'État.
Minorities > Government policy > Thailand, Northern.
Mountain people > Thailand, Northern > Government relations.
Yao (Southeast Asian people) > Thailand, Northern > Ethnic identity.
Yao (Southeast Asian people) > Thailand, Northern > Government relations.
Yao (Südostasien)
Thailand
Thailand > Nord
Northern Thailand.
Thaïlande (Nord) > Relations interethniques.
Thailand, Northern > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ethnic landscapes
  • Yao origins and the state of nature
  • Twentieth-century highlanders
  • From strongmen to farmers
  • Village people
  • On national terrain
  • Conclusions: The work of classification.

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