Remaining Karen
A Study of Cultural Reproduction and the Maintenance of Identity
Authored by: Ananda RajahPlease read Conditions of use before downloading the formats.
Description
This publication of Remaining Karen is intended as a tribute to Ananda Rajah and his consummate skills as an ethnographer. It is also a tribute to his long-term engagement in the study of the Karen. Remaining Karen was Ananda Rajah’s first focused study of the Sgaw Karen of Palokhi in northern Thailand, which he submitted in 1986 for this PhD in the Department of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. It is a work of superlative ethnography set in an historical and regional context and as such retains its value to the present.
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9781921536106
- ISBN (online):
- 9781921536113
- Publication date:
- Nov 2008
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/RK.11.2008
- Series:
- Monographs in Anthropology
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: Cultural Studies, History; Social Sciences: Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Sociology
- Countries:
- Southeast Asia: Thailand
PDF Chapters
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- Preliminary Pages (PDF, 76KB)
- Foreword (PDF, 94KB)
- Abstract (PDF, 101KB)
- Acknowledgements (PDF, 107KB)
- Note on Transcription (PDF, 159KB)
- Introduction (PDF, 488KB)
- Settlement History, Headmanship, and the Lord of the Water, Lord of the Land (PDF, 184KB)
- Kinship, Marriage, and Domestic Social Organisation (PDF, 447KB)
- Village Organisation and the Sociology of Production and Consumption (PDF, 334KB)
- The Economy of Palokhi: Subsistence in a Regional Context (PDF, 941KB)
- Agricultural Rituals: The Ceremonial Cycle in Palokhi (PDF, 1.9MB)
- Conclusion: Cultural Reproduction and the Maintenance of Identity (PDF, 132KB)
- Appendix A. The ‘Au’ Ma Xae Ritual (PDF, 129KB)
- Appendix B. Labour Expended on Agricultural Activities and Co—Operative Labour Exchanges in Palokhi (21 January 1981 – 31 December 1981) (PDF, 105KB)
- Appendix C. A Note on Work and Wage Work in Palokhi (PDF, 107KB)
- Appendix D. Swidden Cultivation in Palokhi (PDF, 124KB)
- Appendix E. Crops Grown in Palokhi Swiddens (PDF, 80KB)
- Appendix F. Wet-Rice Cultivation in Palokhi (PDF, 112KB)
- Appendix G. The Agistment of Buffaloes and Cattle in Palokhi (PDF, 105KB)
- Appendix H. Examples of Household Budgets in Palokhi (PDF, 112KB)
- Appendix I. The Origin of the Karen: An “Official” History (PDF, 108KB)
- Bibliography (PDF, 121KB)
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