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Author Yot Santasombat.

Title Lak chang : a reconstruction of Tai identity in Daikong / Yos Santasombat.

Imprint Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations, maps
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- 1. The setting -- 2. Agricultural and economic patterns -- 3. Kinship and marriage in Daikong -- 4. Political and social Organisations -- 5. Religious beliefs and rituals -- 6. Gender roles and gender relations -- 7. Continuity and reconstruction of Tai ethnic identity.
Summary The Thai--Yunnan Project is proud to present this English-language version of Professor Yos Santasombat's fascinating ethnography of the Tai in Daikong, southwestern China. It represents a significant contribution to the ethnographic record of the Tai peoples. The village of Lak Chang is located close to the edge of the Tai world and is increasingly embraced by Chinese influence. Professor Yos skilfully weaves ethnographic and historical writing to chart the course of Lak Chang's incorporation into the modern Chinese state. This has been a painful history but what emerges in this account is a sense of Tai cultural identity that is vigorous and adaptive. "The Tai ethnic category is thus a complex and dynamic construct which takes place within the context of changing power relations and socio-economic conditions where the past is reconstructed to give meaning to the present and hope for the future." In his account of the labours, rituals and beliefs of the Tai villagers of Daikong, Professor Yos brings contemporary ethnic identity to their life. Among the patchwork paddyfields and haphazard laneways of Lak Chang we come to a greater understanding of how global and regional processes of modernisation are managed and selectively incorporated by one local community
Language English.
Subject Tai (Southeast Asian people) -- China -- Yunnan Sheng.
Tai (Southeast Asian people)
Thaļ (Peuple d'Asie du Sud-Est) -- Chine -- Yunnan (Sheng)
Thaļ (Peuple d'Asie du Sud-Est)
Ethnic studies.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Tai (Southeast Asian people)
China -- Yunnan Sheng https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRyQJVkcwMckrWQdxtyM
Indexed Term Ethnography
Tai
China
Yunnan province
Added Author Australian National University. Thai-Yunnan Project. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QQPVp7R3mCFtjCfRMcHMyM6
Added Title Reconstruction of Tai identity in Daikong
Other Form: Print version: 192153639X
ISBN 9781921536397 (ebook)
192153639X (ebook)
9781921536380 (paperback)
Standard No. 459351
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AU@ 000043904483
AU@ 000051584720
AU@ 000058392035
AU@ 000060581084
GBVCP 1008652156
GBVCP 865744025
AU@ 000069303417

 
    
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