Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure"For the first time a modern type of sociological analysis has been applied to the rich ethnographic material of northern Southeast Asia in this book. While making full use of the techniques which social anthropologists had developed during the previous decade, mainly on the basis of African materials, this book marked a departure from then current orthodoxies and has come to be recognized as constituting an outstanding development in the field of anthropological theory."--Back cover. |
Contents
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING | 1 |
The Hill Peoples of the Burma Frontier 223 | 19 |
Kachin Hills Area Distribution of Kachin and Shan Population | 31 |
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ancestor anthropologist aristocrats Assam Atsi Bhamo bride price British brother Burma Burmese Chapter Chinese claim clan concept cultivation culture dama Dashi debt dialects domain Duleng Dumsa duwa economic fact feud formal Gauri groups Gumjye gumlao gumsa gumsa and gumlao gumsa chiefs gumsa Kachin headman Hkamti Long household hpaga Hpalang Hpauyu Hsenwi htinggaw Hukawng Valley Jinghpaw Kachin and Shan Kachin chief Kachin gumsa Kachin Hills Area Kachin society Kawlu Ma Nawng kind kinship Laga Lahpai chiefs Lahtaw land language Lashi lineage Lisu Madai manau Maran Maraw Marip marriage married Maru matter mayam mayu mayu-dama Mogaung Möng Möng Mao mung myth Nagas Nanchao neighbours Nmwe numshang Nung organisation Palaung political population rank recognised relations relationship rice ritual sacrifice settlement Shan simply Singpho slaves social structure speaking status Sumnut taungya Tawngpeng territory theory thigh-eating chief tion Tsasen ultimogeniture village cluster youngest Zone