An edition of Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) Village Society and Economy in North Thailand: Volume One
(1970)
Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) Village Society and Economy in North Thailand: Volume One
a terminal report to the Royal Thai Government
by Anthony R. Walker
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The first of a two-volume terminal report to the Royal Thai Government of a four-year research project on the Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) people of North Thailand. This volume provides a general introduction to the Lahu people, followed by a detailed investigation of the physical characteristics, demography, social structure, religion and ritual life of a Lahu Nyi village community in Phrao District, Chiang Mai Province during the late 1960s.
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Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) Village Society and Economy in North Thailand: Volume One: a terminal report to the Royal Thai Government
1970, Tribal Research Centre, Chiang Mai
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Table of Contents
Letter of Transmittal to Director, Tribal Research Centre, dated 14 July, 1970
Preface (iii-ix)
Acknowledgments (x-xiii)
Table of Contents (xiv-xviii)
Table of Contents of Volume Two (xix-xxiii)
List of Maps (xxiv-xxvi)
List of Plans, Charts. Diagrams. Graphs (xxvii)
List of Tables (xxviii-xxxii)
Note on the Orthography of Lahu, by James A. Matisoff (xxxiii-v)
Introduction (1-77)
PART ONE: THE STRUCTURE OF LAHU NYI VILLAGE SOCIETY
Chapter One: Sha O Hk'a—The Study Village (79-98)
Chapter Two: Demographic Structure and Household Composition—A Comparison of Three Lahu Villages (99-120)
Chapter Three: Kinship, Marriage, the Family and the Household (121-40)
Chapter Four: The Political Structure of the Lahu Village (141-47)
Chapter Five: The Judicial Structure of the Lahu Nyi Village (148-73)
Chapter Six: Lahu Nyi Religious Ideology (174-88)
Chapter Seven: The Ritual Structure of the Lahu Nyi Village and the Importance of Lahu Prophets (189-201)
Chapter Eight: A Descriptive Outline of Lahu Nyi Ritual Practices (202-71)
Chapter Nine: The Lahu Nyi Life Cycle and Associated Rites (272-301)
Edition Notes
Bibliography: v. 2, leaves [566]-580.
A pre-publication draft of the terminal report of the Tribal Research Centre's Lahu Research Project.
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