TY  - CHAP
AU  - Wang, Zhusheng
PY  - 1997
DA  - 1997//
TI  - The Jingpo: Kachin of the Yunnan Plateau
BT  - Program for Southeast Asian Studies monograph series
SP  - xx, 360
PB  - Program for Southeast Asian Studies
CY  - Tempe, Ariz.
KW  - Jingpo (Chinese people)
KW  - Kachin (Asian people)
KW  - Kachin
KW  - Rawang
KW  - Cultural identity and pride
KW  - Community structure
KW  - Community heads
KW  - Real property
KW  - Form and rules of government
KW  - Chief executive
KW  - Status, role, and prestige
KW  - Settlement patterns
KW  - Gift giving
KW  - Prayers and sacrifices
KW  - Mode of marriage
KW  - Nuptials
KW  - Income and demand
KW  - Standard of living
KW  - Exchange transactions
KW  - Household
KW  - Cereal agriculture
KW  - Territorial hierarchy
KW  - Special crops
KW  - Mythology
KW  - Classes
KW  - Revolution
KW  - Labor supply and employment
KW  - Cult of the dead
KW  - Missions
KW  - Research and development
KW  - Local officials
AB  - This book discusses aspects of social change among the Jingpo, a section of ethnic Kachin people living in Yunnan along the Sino-Burmese border. It shows that before the 1949 revolution in China, the Jingpo were quite different from their Han and Dai neighbors in terms of political, economic, and social structure. The revolution altered Jingpo society, but certain important characteristics survived the transformation. One of these includes the continuity of rice cultivation which shaped economic structures and social relations among villagers.
SN  - 1881044157
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=ap06-032
LA  - English
N1  - Zhusheng Wang ; foreword by F.K. Lehman
ID  - ap06-032
Y1  - 2022-07-05
ER  -