Ethnic groups across national boundaries in mainland Southeast Asia / edited by Gehan Wijeyewardene.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Social issues in Southeast Asia.
Other Authors: Wijeyewardene, Gehan
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, [1990], ©1990.
Series:Social issues in Southeast Asia.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Southeast Asia.
Minorities > Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia > Boundaries.
Physical Description:viii, 192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : definition, innovation, and history / Gehan Wijeyewardene
  • Language and ethnicity : the Mon in Burma and Thailand / Christian Bauer
  • Thailand and the Tai : versions of ethnic identity / Gehan Wijeyewardene
  • A comparative study of structure and contradiction in the Austro-Asiatic system of the Thai-Yunnan periphery / Cholthira Satyawadhna
  • Ethnicity, nationalism, and the nation-state : the Karen in Burma and Thailand / Ananda Rajah
  • Capitalism and the structure of Yao descent units in China and Thailand : a comparison of Youling (1938) and Pulangka (1968) / Douglas Miles
  • Squatters or refugees : development and the Hmong / Nicholas Tapp
  • Afterword : "ethnicity" and anthropology / Rozanna Lilley.