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Author:   Claudio Delang
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780415323314

ISBN 10:   0415323312
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   04 September 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Studying Peoples Often Called Karen Ronald D. Renard Part One: Negotiating an Ethnic Identity 2. Constructing Marginality: the 'Hill Tribe' Karen and their ShiftingLocations within Thai State and Public Perpectives Pinkaew Laungaramsri 3. 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 Reiner Buergin 4. Community Culture: Strengthening Persistence to Empower Resistence John McKinnon Part Two: Social Practices and Transformations: Courtship, Marriage, and Changing Sexual Morality 5. Living for Funerals: Karen Teenagers and Romantic Love Christina Lammert Fink 6. Morality, Sexuality and Mobility: Changing Moral Discourse and Self Yoko Hayami 7. When it is Better to Sing than to Speak: the Use of Traditional Verses (Hta) Roland Mischung Part Three: Social and Economic Adaptation to Government Intervention 8. Social Realities Opportunities and Constraints for the economic adaption to Government Intervention Claudio O. Delang 9. The Karen in Transition from Shifting Cultivation to Permanent Farming: Testing Tools for Participatory Land Use Planning at Local Level Oliver Puginier 10. The Politics of 'Karen-ness' in Thailand Charles Keyes

Reviews

'One of the many strengths of this collection is that it expands the range of expertise involved to include geographers and other specialists in environmental and land use planning.' - Asian Affairs 'This volume contains a number of scholarly and well researched papers of considerable value to Karen specialists and those concerned with the plight of highland minorities in Asia.' - Development and Change 'This valuable and useful volume presents a variety of ethnographic explorations and it is clear, informative and authoritative.' - Ethnos

Author Information

Claudio Delang has been working and conducting fieldwork in Thailand since 1996. His publications include Suffering in Silence: The Human Rights Nightmare of the Karen People in Burma and Deforestation in Northern Thailand: the Result of Hmong Farming Practices of Thai Development Strategies?

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