Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif

Jean Michaud (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

408 Seiten

2006
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-0-8108-5466-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Dwelling in the highland areas of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar) and southwest China are hundreds of ethnic groups known as 'tribes' in popular literature. Some groups number barely more than one hundred, others millions. Together their population adds up to 80 million, more than any of the countries (bar China) they inhabit, yet in each they are designated and treated as 'minorities.'

Autor

Jean Michaud is professor of anthropology at Université Laval, Canada. He has published extensively on the societies of the Southeast Asian Massif and taught about them in the United Kingdom, France and Canada. His latest books, Moving Mountains: Highland Livelihoods and Ethnicity in China, Vietnam and Laos (UBC Press, 2010, co-edited with Tim Forsyth) and 'Incidental' Ethnographers. French Catholic Missions on the Frontier of Tonkin and Yunnan, 1880-1930 (Brill, 2007) address the current and past condition of these societies on the margins.

Inhalt

Part 1 List of Illustrations Part 2 Editor's Foreword Part 3 Preface Part 4 Acknowledgments Part 5 Reader's Note Part 6 Acronyms and Abbreviations Part 7 Chronology Part 8 Maps Part 9 Introduction Part 10 THE DICTIONARY Part 11 Bibliography Part 12 About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.4.2006
• Reihe/Serie: Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures ; 4
• Verlagsort: Lanham, MD
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 151 x 224 mm
• Gewicht: 699 g
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• ISBN-10: 0-8108-5466-X / 081085466X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-5466-6 / 9780810854666
• Zustand: Neuware