ISBN:
9781921536113
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (340 p)
Series Statement:
Monographs in Anthropology
Parallel Title:
Print version Rajah, Ananda Remaining Karen : A Study of Cultural Reproduction and the Maintenance of Identity
DDC:
305.895
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Remaining Karen -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transcription -- Introduction -- The Problem: Ethnic Identity, Cultural Distinctiveness and Religion -- Palokhi: The Geographical and Economic Context -- The Argument: Religion, Ideology, and the Maintenance of Cultural Identity -- Religion and Ritual -- Ideology -- The Maintenance of Cultural Identity -- Settlement History, Headmanship, and the Lord of the Water, Lord of the Land -- Toponym, Village, and Domain -- Settlement History -- Headmanship and The Lord of the Water, Lord of the Land
Abstract:
Headmanship and Succession -- The Head Rite -- Kinship, Marriage, and Domestic Social Organisation -- Kinship Terminology -- The Naming System: "Event" Names and Teknonymy -- Male and Female: The System of Sex Differentiation -- Dress and Colour Symbolism -- Marriage Rules -- "Heat" and "Cooling": The Symbolic and Ideological Significance of Marriage -- Marriage: The Ritual Process -- Marriage, Residence, and Domestic Group Formation and Fission -- Divorce: Throwing Away Marital Partners, Pots, and Pans -- A Note on Remarriage
Abstract:
Village Organisation and the Sociology of Production and Consumption -- The Domestic Organisation of Production and Consumption: Some Case Studies -- Case 1: H1a, H1b -- Case 2: H2, H13a, H13b, H13c -- Case 3: H4, H5, H8, H9, H10 -- Case 4: H11a, H11b, H12 -- Some General Patterns -- Contractual and Non-contractual Arrangements in the Organisation of Agricultural Production -- Partnerships -- Share-cropping -- Co-operative Labour Exchange -- The Sociology of Production and Consumption in Palokhi -- Eating: The Consumption of Food as Practical Symbol and Symbolic Practice
Abstract:
Domestic Commensalism in Palokhi -- Feasting in the Rites of the New Year -- The Constitutive and Transformative Aspects of Commensalism -- The Economy of Palokhi: Subsistence in a Regional Context -- The Agricultural Calendar -- Swidden Agriculture: Land Use -- Wet-rice Agriculture: Land Use, Inheritance, and the "Management" of Agricultural Land -- Land use -- Inheritance -- The Role of Men as Managers of Land -- Rice Production and Consumption Requirements -- Subsistence in a Regional Context: Miang, Tea, and the Cash Sector of the Palokhi Economy -- Income Earning Activities -- Expenditures
Abstract:
Household Economics in Palokhi: Some Examples -- Agricultural Rituals: The Ceremonial Cycle in Palokhi -- The Ceremonial Cycle: An Overview -- Ritual: Performance and Language -- The Ritual Ownership of Swiddens -- The Rites of Clearing and Planting -- Swidden Divination -- The Rite of Clearing Swiddens -- The Rite of Planting Swiddens (Ly Tho Hy') -- Planting the Ritual Basket of the Yam (Chae' Lau Nwae Tasae') -- Drinking the Liquor of the Rice Seed ('Au' Si' By Chae' Khli) -- The Rite of Protection -- The Protection of Swiddens (Bghau Hy') -- The Symbolism of the Toemau' Reconsidered
Abstract:
The Rites of Harvesting
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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