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Civility and savagery : social identity in Tai States

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Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Civility and savagery : social identity in Tai States
  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    Routledge
  • Place
  • Date
    2015
  • Physical Description

    xvii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9781138970816
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Content
    Part I. Inter-ethnic relations in Tai political domains.
    1. Introduction to 'Civility and savagery' / Andrew Turton
    Part II. Internal histories and comparisons
    2. The others within: travel and ethno-spatial differentiation of Siamese subjects 1885-1910 / Thongchai Winichakul
    3. The differential integration of Hill People into the Thai state / Ronald D. Renard
    4. Ritual relations and identity: Hmong and others / Nicholas Tapp
    5. The politics of cosmology: an introduction to millenarianism and ethnicity among Highland minorities of Northern Thailand / Claes Corlin
    6. Akha internal history: marginalization of the Ethnic Alliance System / Leo Alting von Geusau
    Part III. Thai-Malay borderlands
    7. The historical development of Thai-speaking Muslim communities in Southern Thailand and Northern Malaysia / Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian.
    8. Emergence and transformation of peripheral ethnicity: Sam Sam on the Thai-Malaysian border / Ryoko Nishii
    Part IV. Laos: A poly-ethnic state
    9. A princess in a people's republic: a new phase in the construction of the Lao nation / Charles F. Keyes
    10. Nationalities policy in modern Laos / Igor Kossikov
    11. Tribal politics in Laos / Mayoury Ngaosyvathn
    12. Tai-ization: ethnic change in Northern Indo-China / Grant Evans
    Part V. Lanna and neighbours
    13. Autochthony and the Inthakhin cult of Chiang Mai / Shigeharu Tanabe
    14. Tai Lue of Sipsongpanna and Muang Nan in the nineteenth-century / Ratanaporn Sethakul
    15. Ethnic heterogeneity and elephants in nineteenth-century Lanna statecraft / Katherine A. Bowie
    Part VI. Postscript
    16. A new stage in Tai regional studies: the challenge of local histories / Nicholas Tapp.
  • Public Access Text

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

  • Collection Type
    Ethnology Library
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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