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Les systèmes politiques des hautes terres de Birmanie : analyse des structures sociales kachin
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Year: 1972 Publisher: Paris: Maspero,

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Political systems of highland Burma : a study of Kachin social structure
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Year: 1954 Publisher: London : London School of Economics and Political Science,

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Les systèmes politiques des hautes terres de Birmanie : analyse des structures sociales kachin
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Prêtres et chamanes : métamorphoses des Kachin de Birmanie
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ISBN: 9782296024557 Year: 2007 Publisher: Paris : L'Harmattan,

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The Singpho of North East India : a historical study of syncretic worldview of tradition and modernity
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ISBN: 9390371422 Year: 2021 Publisher: Astral International Pvt Ltd

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Political systems of Highland Burma : a study of Kachin social structure
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Year: 1964 Publisher: London : London school of economics and political science,

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System, structure, and contradiction in the evolution of "Asiatic" social formations
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ISBN: 8748001309 Year: 1979 Publisher: Copenhagen : National Museum of Denmark,

System, structure, and contradiction : the evolution of Asiatic social formations
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ISBN: 0761989331 076198934X Year: 1998 Publisher: Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press,


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The Kachins : their customs and traditions
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ISBN: 1139192175 1108046096 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Ola Hanson (1864-1927) was a Swedish-American missionary from Minnesota, posted to northern Burma in 1890. He lived with the Kachin people and became fluent in their language, compiling a word-list and eventually producing a Kachin-English dictionary. Their own culture and complex belief system were orally transmitted: Hanson therefore devised an alphabetical transcription for his translation of the Bible into Kachin, and this writing system later became widespread in Burma. First published in 1913, this book was written after Hanson had lived with the Kachins for over twenty years, and offers a unique insight into their culture at this time. It outlines their origins, dialects, law and weapons, as well as the details of Kachin religious beliefs and ceremonies for births, marriage and death. This is both an ethnography of the Kachin and an example of the perspective of an early 20th-century missionary.

Social dynamics in the highlands of Southeast Asia
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ISBN: 9789004160347 9004160345 9786611921460 1281921467 9047420624 9789047420620 Year: 2007 Volume: 18 Publisher: Leiden, the Netherlands Brill

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This reappraisal of Political Systems of Highland Burma , the seminal work by E.R. Leach, presents much new material on the highlands of Southeast Asia and its borders from writers with long-term research experience in these areas. The Introduction establishes in detail both the theoretical and regional ethnographic significance of Leach’s work and the chapters to follow. Part One discusses issues relating to Leach’s fieldwork, including the background to his research and issues arising from his fieldwork practice. Part Two presents a variety of engagements with Leach’s theoretical approach, particularly his ideas of socio-political oscillation. This theory is considered in relation to the historical experience of culture contact in Assam and Laos, particularly between Tai and non-Tai groups. Part Three considers once more Leach’s ideas with respect to communities that are, or could be considered, Kachin sub-groups in Burma, Tibet and Yunnan, this time focusing on interpretations of exchange and the notion of ritual language. A discussion of approaches towards the study of transethnicity concludes the work. The book is a significant contribution to the development of a new regional anthropology of Southeast Asia, incorporating material from areas that were, until recently, closed to researchers.

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