The Kachins, Their Customs and Traditions
Author : Ola Hanson
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Burma
ISBN :
Author : Ola Hanson
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Burma
ISBN :
Author : Ola Hanson
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780353614413
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Author : Edmund Ronald Leach
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 34,69 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300085082
Brings together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach.
Author : James S. Olson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 1998-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1567508774
Since Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms began in the early 1980s, the People's Republic of China has rejoined global politics as a world power. The country is likely to become more open and its internal politics will no doubt affect the rest of the world. With more than 1.2 billion people divided into hundreds of ethnic groups, all dominated by the Han people, China's politics and its foreign policy are bound to be affected by ethnicity and ethnic rivalry. This book is designed to give librarians, students, scholars, and educated readers a ready reference for background information of interpreting ethnic events in China. Generally defining ethnicity in terms of language, this book provides individual essays on hundreds of Chinese ethnic groups, including ethnic groups living in the Republic of China on Taiwan. The book also includes a chronology, bibliography, and a breakdown of the People's Republic of China's ethnic political subdivisions.
Author : Peter Metcalf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 052111098X
The remarkable longhouses of Borneo remain mysterious. This book describes life within them, and puts them in their historical and ethnographic context.
Author : Andrew Selth
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9814951781
Updated by popular demand, this is the fourth edition of this important bibliography. It lists a wide selection of works on or about Myanmar published in English and in hard copy since the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, which marked the beginning of a new era in Myanmar’s modern history. There are now 2,727 titles listed. They have been written, edited, translated or compiled by over 2,000 people, from many different backgrounds. These works have been organized into thirty-five subject chapters containing ninety-five discrete sections. There are also four appendices, including a comprehensive reading guide for those unfamiliar with Myanmar or who may be seeking guidance on particular topics. This book is an invaluable aid to officials, scholars, journalists, armchair travellers and others with an interest in this fascinating but deeply troubled country.
Author : Timothy Yates
Publisher : Author House
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1456772309
This account of a fascinating and neglected life makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of twentieth century British evangelicalism and overseas missions. (John Wolffe, Professor of Religious History, Open University) The family lived through stirring times and Canon Houghtons life was one of some drama, subject like St Paul to shipwreck and some dangers on the mission field, followed by much labour at home for the missionary society and many other Christian bodies and causes. (Timothy Yates, author) One of the Lords great servants on earth. He was not only a dedicated evangelical leader in Britain, but a warm personal friend and supporter of mine for which I am very grateful. (Billy Graham) His life and character exemplified the four marks of the Christian Church mentioned by our Lord: a concern for truth, a concern for holiness, a concern for mission, and a concern for unity. (John Stott) Canon Houghton, a missionary statesman and a man of great stature. He was invariably supportive and encouraging. (John B. Taylor, former Bishop of St Albans)
Author : Jelle J. P. Wouters
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000636992
The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India by discussing its life-forms – human and not – languages, landscapes, and lifeways in all its diversity and difference. The companion contains authoritative entries from leading specialists from and on the region and offers clear, concise, and illuminating explanations of key themes and ideas. A hands-on, practical, and comprehensive guide to Northeast India, this companion fills a significant gap in the literature and will be an invaluable teaching, learning, and research resource for scholars and students of Northeast India Studies, South Asian and Southeast Asian societies, culture, politics, humanities, and the social sciences in general.
Author : E. R. Leach
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 1000320901
A collection of brilliant and provocative essays from Edmund Leach, one of the most original voices in the social anthropological tradition.
Author : Tom Crowley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1527510484
Largely due to the tastes of nineteenth century Western collectors and curators, weaponry abounds in ethnographic museums. However, the relative absence of Asian, African, Native American and Oceanic arms and armour from contemporary gallery displays neither reflects this fact, nor accords these important artefacts the attention they deserve. Weapons are often those objects in museums which most strongly record traumatic histories of colonial conquest around the world, showcase a society’s most complex technologies, and encode a wealth of historical information relating to violent conflict, cultural identities, and indigenous masculinities. This volume brings together an international collective of museum professionals, indigenous cultural historians, anthropologists and material culture specialists to address the historical role of weapon collections in ethnographic museums, and to reconsider the value of studying arms for the purposes of writing richer cultural histories. From Australia to the Amazon, from Uttar Pradesh to ancient Ulster, the essays in this book endeavour to return ethnographic weapons to the centre of material culture studies. In doing so, they offer a blueprint for a more sophisticated future treatment of world weaponry.