UID:
edocfu_9959234859402883
Format:
1 online resource (263 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-35906-3
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0-203-38956-5
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1-134-35907-1
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1-280-10024-9
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0-203-35645-4
Series Statement:
RoutledgeCurzon research on Southeast Asia ; 6
Content:
The Karen are one of the major ethnic minority groups in the Himalayan highlands, living predominantly in the border area between Thailand and Burma. As the largest ethnic minority in Thailand, they have often been in conflict with the Thai majority. This book is the first major ethnographic and anthropological study of the Karen for over a decade and looks at such key issues as history, ethnic identity, religious change, the impact of government intervention, education land management and gender relations.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Living at the Edge of Thai Society: The Karen in the highlands of northern Thailand; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Units of measurement; 1 Studying peoples often called Karen; Part I Negotiating an ethnic identity; Introduction to Part I; 2 Constructing marginality: The 'hill tribe' Karen and their shifting locations within Thai state and public perspectives; 3 Trapped in environmental discourses and politics of exclusion: Karen in the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in the context of forest and hill tribe policies in Thailand
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4 Community culture: Strengthening persistence to empower resistancePart II Social practices and transformations: Courtship, marriage, and changing sexual morality; Introduction to Part II; 5 Living for funerals: Karen teenagers and romantic love; 6 Morality, sexuality and mobility: Changing moral discourse and self; 7 When it is better to sing than to speak: The use of traditional verses (hta) in tense social situations (Example of a marriage ceremony in an upland Sgaw village, Chiang Mai Province); Part III Social and economic adaptation to government development policies
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Introduction to Part III8 Social and economic adaptations to a changing landscape: Realities, opportunities and constraints; 9 The Karen in transition from shifting cultivation to permanent farming: Testing tools for participatory land use planning at local level; Afterword: The politics of 'Karen-ness' in Thailand; References; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-60014-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-32331-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203356456
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