UID:
almahu_9949702265502882
ISBN:
9789004644557
Series Statement:
Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
Content:
The Lisu people, whose lives have been recorded in this publication, are predominantly women of a mountain community in northern Thailand. Along with their men, they have been growing poppies for opium for over a century, the sales of which have been sustained their non-authoritarian society and its implied repute ideology. While living with them for several years, the author observed how newly introduced substitute crops involving a change in production and trade relations had upset the previously egalitarian basis of female and male worth, as exemplified in the metaphor of elephant and dog. The modified gender system in which the Lisu female has become an underdog is described against the backdrop of conventional ideas regarding the cosmic forces, the division of labour, bridewealth and marriage.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
,
English
Additional Edition:
Print version: Emerging Sexual Inequality among the Lisu of Northern Thailand : The Waning of Dog and Elephant Repute. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1990. ISBN 9789004090491
Language:
English
