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Founders' cults in Southeast Founders' cults in Southeast Asia ancestors, polity, and identity ​ edited by Nicola Tannenbaum and Cornelia Ann Kemmerer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Monograph /​ Yale Southeast Asia Studies ; 52Publication details: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press c2003.Description: xi, 373 pages ill., maps 24 cmISBN:
  • 093869278X
  • 0938692798 (pbk.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.959 TAN
Contents:
The relevance of the founders' cult for understanding the political systems of the peoples of northern Southeast Asia and its Chinese borderlands /​ F.K. Lehman (F.K.L. Chit Hlaing Spirit cults among Akha highlanders of northern Thailand /​ Cornelia Ann Kammerer "Thigh-eating chiefs" in an egalitarian society: the case of Akha highlanders of northern Thailand /​ Cornelia Ann Kammerer Mothers of the land: vitality and order in the Toraja highlands /​ Elizabeth Coville Expanding spiritual territories: owners of the land, missionization, and migration in central Sulawesi /​ Lorraine C. Aragon The decline of founders' cults and changing configuration of power: village and forest among Karen in the Thai state /​ Yoko Hayami Publicizing rituals and privatizing meanings: negotiating an identity of the Gumai of Sumatra /​ Minako Sakai Reconfiguration of village guardian spirits among the Thai-Lao in northeast Thailand /​ Nicola Tannenbaum Phaya Sihanatraja and the founding of Maehongson /​ Nicola Tannenbaum Pedestrian politics: the social focus of founders, migration, and ritual /​ Hjörleifur Jønsson From "fertility" to "order," paternalism to profits: the Thai city's impact on the culture-environment interface /​ Richard A. O'Connor Founders' cults in regional and historical perspective /​ Richard A. O'Connor.
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Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-355) and index.

The relevance of the founders' cult for understanding the political systems of the peoples of northern Southeast Asia and its Chinese borderlands /​ F.K. Lehman (F.K.L. Chit Hlaing Spirit cults among Akha highlanders of northern Thailand /​ Cornelia Ann Kammerer "Thigh-eating chiefs" in an egalitarian society: the case of Akha highlanders of northern Thailand /​ Cornelia Ann Kammerer Mothers of the land: vitality and order in the Toraja highlands /​ Elizabeth Coville Expanding spiritual territories: owners of the land, missionization, and migration in central Sulawesi /​ Lorraine C. Aragon The decline of founders' cults and changing configuration of power: village and forest among Karen in the Thai state /​ Yoko Hayami Publicizing rituals and privatizing meanings: negotiating an identity of the Gumai of Sumatra /​ Minako Sakai Reconfiguration of village guardian spirits among the Thai-Lao in northeast Thailand /​ Nicola Tannenbaum Phaya Sihanatraja and the founding of Maehongson /​ Nicola Tannenbaum Pedestrian politics: the social focus of founders, migration, and ritual /​ Hjörleifur Jønsson From "fertility" to "order," paternalism to profits: the Thai city's impact on the culture-environment interface /​ Richard A. O'Connor Founders' cults in regional and historical perspective /​ Richard A. O'Connor.

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