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Author:   Andrew Turton
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.900kg
ISBN:  

9780700711734

ISBN 10:   0700711732
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   18 May 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface PART I Inter-Ethnic Relations in Tai Political Domains 1. Introduction to Civility and Savagery PART II Internal Histories and Comparisons Introduction 2. The Others Within: Travel and Ethno-Spatial Differentiation of Siamese Subjects 1885-1910 3. The Differential Integration of Hill People into the Thai State 4. Ritual Relations and Identity: Hmong and Others 5. The Politics of Cosmology: An Introduction to Millenarianism and Ethnicity among Highland Minorities of Northern Thailand 6. Akha Internal History: Marginalization and the Ethnic Alliance System PART III Thai-Malay Borderlands Introduction 7. The Historical Development of Thai-Speaking Muslim Communities in Southern Thailand and Northern Malaysia 8. Emergence and Transformation of Peripheral Ethnicity: Sam Sam on the Thai-Malaysian Border PART IV Laos: A Poly-Ethnic State Introduction 9. A Princess in a People's Republic: A New Phase in the Construction of the Lao Nation 10. Nationalities Policy in Modern Laos 11. Tribal Politics in Laos 12. Tai-Ization: Ethnic Change in Northern Indo-China PART V Lanna and Neighbours Introduction 13. Autochthony and the Inthakhin Cult of Chiang Mai 14. Tai Lue of Sipsongpanna and Miiang Nan in the Nineteenth-Century 15. Ethnic Heterogeneity and Elephants in Nineteenth-Century Lanna Statecraft PART VI Postscript 16. A New Stage in Tai Regional Studies: The Challenge of Local Histories

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'I highly recommend Civility and Savagery to scholars of the history and culture of Tai-speaking peoples.' - The Australian Journal of Anthropology

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