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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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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations, maps
	text txt rdacontent
	computer c rdamedia
	online resource cr rdacarrier
	data file
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)
	Thaī (Peuple d'Asie du Sud-Est) -- Chine -- Yunnan (Sheng)
	Thaī (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.
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
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