附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Units of measurement; Studying peoples often called Karen; Negotiating an ethnic identity; Introduction; Constructing marginality: the 'hill tribe' Karen and their shifting locations within Thai state and public perspectives; Trapped in environmental discourses and politics of exclusion: Karen in the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in the context of forest and hill tribe policies in Thailand; Community culture: strengthening persistence to empower resistance.
Social practices and transformations: courtship, marriage, and changing sexual moralityIntroduction; Living for funerals: Karen teenagers and romantic love; Morality, sexuality and mobility: changing moral discourse and self; When it is better to sing than to speak: the use of traditional verses (hta) in tense social situations; Social and economic adaptation to government development policies; Introduction; Social and economic adaptations to a changing landscape: realities, opport.
摘要:This book is the first major ethnographic and anthropological study of the Karen for over a decade and looks at such key issues as history, ethnic identity, religious change, the impact of government intervention and gender relations.
