Social Dynamics in the Highlands of Southeast Asia
Reconsidering Political Systems of Highland Burma by E.R. Leach
Biographical note
François Robinne, Ph.D. (1985) in Social Anthropology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS Paris), is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Research on Southeast Asia (IRSEA-CNRS). He has published Fils et maîtres du Lac. Relations interethniques dans l'Etat Shan de Birmanie (CNRS, 2000) and Prêtres et chamanes. Métamorphoses kachin (L'Harmattan, 2007).
Mandy Sadan, Ph.D. (2005) in History, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (Pitt Rivers Museum), University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford. She has published a number of articles and is currently working on a monograph on the emergence of ethnic categories in Burma.
Mandy Sadan, Ph.D. (2005) in History, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (Pitt Rivers Museum), University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford. She has published a number of articles and is currently working on a monograph on the emergence of ethnic categories in Burma.
Readership
All institutions that have South Asia and/or Southeast Asia interests. Academics dealing with issues of ethnicity in South and Southeast Asia from anthropological, historical and political science perspectives; also those interested in material culture of Southeast Asia.
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