ISBN:
0415323312
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 244 p)
,
ill., maps
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
RoutledgeCurzon research on Southeast Asia 6
Series Statement:
Rethinking Southeast Asia Ser. v.4
Parallel Title:
Print version Living at the Edge of Thai Society : The Karen in the Highlands of Northern Thailand
DDC:
305.8/009593/09143
Keywords:
Karen (Southeast Asian people)
;
Karen (Southeast Asian people) ; Thailand
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 and gender relations
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-236) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
