Andrew Turton

Civility and Savagery (eBook, ePUB)

Social Identity in Tai States

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136797514
• Artikelnr.: 38448242

Autorenporträt

Andrew Turton

Inhaltsangabe

Preface PART I Inter-Ethnic Relations in Tai Political Domains 1.
Introduction to Civility and Savagery PART II Internal Histories and
Comparisons Introduction 2. The Others Within: Travel and Ethno-Spatial
Differentiation of Siamese Subjects 1885-1910 3. The Differential
Integration of Hill People into the Thai State 4. Ritual Relations and
Identity: Hmong and Others 5. The Politics of Cosmology: An Introduction to
Millenarianism and Ethnicity among Highland Minorities of Northern Thailand
6. Akha Internal History: Marginalization and the Ethnic Alliance System
PART III Thai-Malay Borderlands Introduction 7. The Historical Development
of Thai-Speaking Muslim Communities in Southern Thailand and Northern
Malaysia 8. Emergence and Transformation of Peripheral Ethnicity: Sam Sam
on the Thai-Malaysian Border PART IV Laos: A Poly-Ethnic State Introduction
9. A Princess in a People's Republic: A New Phase in the Construction of
the Lao Nation 10. Nationalities Policy in Modern Laos 11. Tribal Politics
in Laos 12. Tai-Ization: Ethnic Change in Northern Indo-China PART V Lanna
and Neighbours Introduction 13. Autochthony and the Inthakhin Cult of
Chiang Mai 14. Tai Lue of Sipsongpanna and Miiang Nan in the
Nineteenth-Century 15. Ethnic Heterogeneity and Elephants in
Nineteenth-Century Lanna Statecraft PART VI Postscript 16. A New Stage in
Tai Regional Studies: The Challenge of Local Histories