Social dynamics in the highlands of Southeast Asia reconsidering Political systems of Highland Burma by E.R. Leach (Brill, 2007)
"This volume originated from a panel ... which was organised for the EUROSEAS Conference, held at the Sorbonne University, Paris, in September 2004"--Preface. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface (François Robinne and Mandy Sadan); List of Contributors; Introduction: Notes on Edmund Leach's analysis of Kachin society and its further applications (F.K.L. Chit Hlaing (F.K. Lehman)); Part One Historical Contexts of E.R. Leach's Fieldwork; The biographical origins of Political Systems of Highland Burma (Robert Anderson); On the continuing relevance of E.R. Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma to Kachin Studies (Maran La Raw); Translating Gumlau: History, the 'Kachin' and Edmund Leach (Mandy Sadan); Part Two Comparative Approaches in Assam and Laos
Drawing on long term fieldwork and research in communities from Assam through to Laos, this book offers a different level of reappraisal of the work of Edmund Leach and offers a significant contribution to the development of a new regional anthropology of Southeast Asia