Living at the Edge of Thai Society: The Karen in the Highlands of Northern ThailandClaudio Delang Routledge, 2004 - 264 pages The Karen are one of the major ethnic minority groups in the Himalayan highlands, living predominantly in the border area between Thailand and Burma. As the largest ethnic minority in Thailand, they have often been in conflict with the Thai majority. 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, education land management and gender relations. |
Table des matières
1 Studying peoples often called Karen | 1 |
Part I Negotiating an ethnic identity | 17 |
Courtship marriage and changing sexual morality | 85 |
Part III Social and economic adaptation to government development policies | 151 |
The politics of Karenness in Thailand | 210 |
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agricultural animist Ban Huai Hoi Bangkok Post border bride Buergin Burma Burmese cash crops cent century ceremony changes chao khao chapter Chiang Mai Province Christian conservation context cultivation culture discourse economic elders ethnic minority fallow farmers fields forest areas forest reserves forestry funerals girls groom groups grow highlands hill tribes Hmong households indigenous Karen communities Karen in Thung Karen teenagers Karen villages Karen women Karennic-speaking Kha Pu village khon Khong River Kree land use planning living lowland Bo Kaeo Mae Hong Son Mae Kha Pu Mae Wang male many-strandedness maps marriage married missionaries modern Muang Naresuan NGOs non-Karen Northern Thai northern Thailand political population problem protected Pwo Karen relationship resettlement rice ritual Sgaw Sgaw Karen shifting cultivation Siam singing social songs spirits subsistence swidden Tambon term Thai society Thung Yai tion traditional upland verses watershed wedding woman young