Heinz-Murray 2E.book

108 Part II: Outsiders oppressions of state-making projects in the valleys—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvee labor, epidemics ...

Chapter 4 Tribal People 109 for territory than for laborers; captives were little more than slaves working for the padi state. T ...

110 Part II: Outsiders attempt to define and describe a particular kind of social formation, the tribe. What he meant by that wa ...

Chapter 4 Tribal People 111 India has identified more than 200 tribes speaking 100 languages scattered throughout the subcontine ...

112 Part II: Outsiders associated with a modern worldview and the interests of the modern state. They may have no reality for th ...

Chapter 4 Tribal People 113 motivated to describe them (typically colonial administrators, Western mission- aries, or anthropolo ...

114 Part II: Outsiders Moreover, there are long-term processes by which people change from one ethnicity to another. The 1.16 bi ...

Chapter 4 Tribal People 115 no doubt. From the standpoint of the Confucian worldview, civilization was characterized by wenhua, ...

116 Part II: Outsiders Hmong responded it was because they were not allowed to rule themselves. So the French gave them control ...

Chapter 4 Tribal People 117 The Hmong retain their ethnic identity as Hmong despite the very different societies in which they n ...

118 Part II: Outsiders These people, who did not have systems of writing, who did not know the Confucian texts, and who were not ...

Chapter 4 Tribal People 119 convey the Miao worldview or its social organization—that is, Miao culture as it was lived by the Mi ...

120 Part II: Outsiders Descriptions of the Miao in China continue to emphasize their colorful customs and their differences from ...

Chapter 4 Tribal People 121 There are several good studies of Hmong villages, notably a study of two Blue Hmong villages, Pasaml ...

122 Part II: Outsiders area of Meto had become “just another jungle valley with few signs of its for- mer habitation.” Where did ...

Chapter 4 Tribal People 123 warfare, which forced people to cluster around local warlords for protection. Another was the presen ...

The village’s most important shaman, Chaitong, is addicted to opium. It is legal for him to grow enough to meet his needs—about ...

Chapter 4 Tribal People 125 rain as it is maturing. But the rain should stop about the time the petals begin to fall so the seed ...

126 Part II: Outsiders which the various war-lords hoped to derive needed revenue for maintaining their troops” (Wu Lien-teh 195 ...

Chapter 4 Tribal People 127 transdeath relationship is when the time comes for the son to bury his father. The headman of Nomya ...