ISBN:
9780700711734
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (395 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Civility and Savagery : Social Identity in Tai States
DDC:
305.800959
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This is a book about social differentiation and distinction in one of the ethnically and politically most complex regions of the world, dealing with crucial issues in currently renewed debates on cultural pluralism, nationalism, irredentism and ethnic dispersal. The themes are given a regional and historical focus by treating peoples within the Tai-speaking regions of mainland South East Asia, namely the two basically Tai states, Thailand and Laos, and Tai areas in Burma, China, Vietnam and Malaysia. The book examines representations of non-Tai peoples by various Tai, and representations of Ta
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Civility and Savagery; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; Part I: Inter-Ethnic Elations in Tai Political Domains; 1. Introduction to Civility and Savagery: Andrew Turton; Part II: Internal Histories and Comparisons; Introduction; 2. The Others Within: Travel and Ethno-Spatial Differentiation of Siamese Subjects 1885-1910: Thongchai Winichakul; 3. The Differential Integration of Hill People into the Thai State: Ronald D. Renard; 4. Ritual Relations and Identity: Hmong and Others: Nicholas Tapp
Description / Table of Contents:
5. The Politics of Cosmology: An Introduction to Millenarianism and Ethnicity among Highland Minorities of Northern Thailand: Claes Corlin6. Akha Internal History: Marginalization and the Ethnic Alliance System: Leo Alting von Geusau; Part III: Thai-Malay Borderlands; Introduction; 7. The Historical Development of Thai-Speaking Muslim Communities in Southern Thailand and Northern Malaysia: Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian; 8. Emergence and Transformation of Peripheral Ethnicity: Sam Sam on the Thai-Malaysian Border: Ryoko Nishii; Part IV: Laos: A Poly-Ethnic State; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
9. A Princess in a People's Republic: A New Phase in the Construction of the Lao Nation: Charles F. Keyes10. Nationalities Policy in Modern Laos: Igor Kossikov; 11. Tribal Politics in Laos: Mayoury Ngaosyvathn; 12. Tai-Ization: Ethnic Change in Northern Indo-China: Grant Evans; Part V: Lanna and Neighbours; Introduction; 13. Autochthony and the Inthakhin Cult of Chiang Mai: Shigeharu Tanabe; 14. Tai Lue of Sipsongpanna and Miiang Nan in the Nineteenth-Century: Ratanaporn Sethakul; 15. Ethnic Heterogeneity and Elephants in Nineteenth-Century Lanna Statecraft: Katherine A. Bowie
Description / Table of Contents:
Part VI: Postscript16. A New Stage in Tai Regional Studies: The Challenge of Local Histories: Nicholas Tapp; Appendix: Illustrations: sources and notes; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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