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Political periphery, cosmological center: the reproduction of Rmeet sociocosmic order and the Laos-Thailand border
Centering the margin : agency and narrative in Southeast Asian borderlands • 4 • Published In 2006 • Pages: 65-82
By: Sprenger, Guido.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Living in Laos near the border with Thailand, the Rmeet have a widely-told creation myth predating the origins of both nations. This essay discusses the continuing relevance of this myth in justifying both their minority status within Laos and cyclical labor migration to Thailand. Wages and commercial proceeds obtained from these external relations are essential for the maintenance of Rmeet peoples’ internal socio-cosmic order, including paying bride price and purchasing religious items.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mythology
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Form and rules of government
- Labor supply and employment
- Mode of marriage
- Sacred objects and places
- Buying and selling
- Forest products
- Family relationships
- Medium of exchange
- Cult of the dead
- Prayers and sacrifices
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rmeet
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 2000-2002
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1937-2002
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Takheung, Luang Namtha, Laos
- NotesAdditional notes
- Guido Sprenger
- Includes bibliographical references (p. )
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lamet (Laotian people)