Kachin : AP06.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2013- |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/collection?owc=AP06 |
| Subjects |
| Included Work | Ho, Ts'ui-p'ing. Rethinking Kachin wealth ownership. |
| Included Work | Huke, Robert E. Economic geography of a north Burma Kachin village. |
| Included Work | Leach, E. R. (Edmund Ronald), 1910-1989 Political systems of highland Burma. |
| Included Work | Lehman, F. K., 1924- Culture summary, Kachin. |
| Included Work | Maran, La Raw. Toward a basis for understanding the minorities in Burma, the Kachin example. |
| Included Work | Maran, La Raw. On the continuing relevance of E. R. Leach's Political systems of Highland Burma to Kachin studies. |
| Included Work | Robinne, François Bibliography. |
| Included Work | Sadan, Mandy. Translating gumlau, history, the 'Kachin' and Edmund Leach. |
| Included Work | Wang, Zhusheng Jingpo, Kachin of the Yunnan Plateau. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series | eHRAF World Cultures. Asia eHRAF World Cultures. Asia. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Rethinking Kachin wealth ownership / Ho Ts'ui-p'ing -- Economic geography of a north Burma Kachin village / Robert E. Huke -- Political systems of highland Burma : a study of Kachin social structure / E. R. Leach ; with a foreword by Raymond Firth -- Culture summary, Kachin / F. K. Lehman -- Toward a basis for understanding the minorities in Burma : the Kachin example ; On the continuing relevance of E. R. Leach's Political systems of Highland Burma to Kachin studies / Maran La Raw -- Bibliography / edited by François Robinne and Mandy Sadan -- Translating gumlau : history, the 'Kachin' and Edmund Leach / Mandy Sadan -- The Jingpo: Kachin of the Yunnan Plateau / Zhusheng Wang ; foreword by F. K. Lehman. |
| Scope and content | This collection of 9 documents, all in English, covers a variety of cultural, geographical and historical information from the 1880s to 2007. The basic source to consult is E. R Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma (1954). In addition to providing a model of the political structure of the Kachin and neighboring Shan, this book also contains a wide variety of information on other topics such as ecology, kinship, class, property, and religion. Leach's account is further supplemented by R. Huke's in-depth study of one village with particular emphasis on geography, settlement patterns, housing, subsistence and agriculture, and the economy (1954). Five documents in the collection discuss change and continuity in Kachin society since the advent of colonialism in the 1880s and especially after Burma's independence in 1948. In examining these issues, these works also offer an alternative to Leach's "oscillation" model of social change for Kachin society. Themes covered in these works include the concept of wealth and property ownership (Ho 2007), cultural meanings and models of political organization (Sadan 2007), and problems and biases in earlier ethnographic accounts of Kachin society (La Raw 1967; 2007). While most of the documents in the collection concentrate on the Jinghpaw (also called Chingpaw, Singho) Kachin of northern Burma, Wang discusses aspects of social change among the Jingpo Kachin living in Yunnan, China (Wang 1997). |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2013 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Oct. 9, 2013). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
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