Turbulent Times and Enduring Peoples Mountain Minorities in the South-East Asian Massif

Name: Turbulent Times and Enduring Peoples Mountain Minorities in the South-East Asian Massif
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ISBN: 9780700711802

ISBN-10: 0700711805

ISBN-13: 9780700711802

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jean Michaud, Jan Ovesen

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Scattered all over the mountains of Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and China, a few dozen ethnic groups still maintain highly original cultural identities and political and economic traditions, against the pressure to conform and be assimilated.

Book details

List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/13/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 270
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface


List of Contributors


List of Maps


Introduction: Montagnard Domain in the South-East Asian Massif




Migrants, Runaways and Opium Growers: Origins of the Hmong in Laos and Siam in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries




A Historical Panorama of the Montagnards in Northern Vietnam under French Rule




The Western Protestant Missionaries and the Miao in Yunnan and Guizhou, Southwest China




The Karens: Loyalism and Self-determination




Sedentarization and Selective Preservation among the Montagnards in the Vietnamese Central Highlands




Emergence of a Leading Group: A Case Study of the Inter-Ethnic Relationships in the Southern Shan State




Changing Patterns of Economics among Hmong in Northern Thailand 1960-1990




The Impact of Trekking Tourism in a Changing Society: A Karen Village in Northern Thailand




Traditional Tribal What? Sports, Culture and the State in the Northern Hills of Thailand



Index