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The Kachin are a collection of groups, all speaking Tibeto-Burman languages, who developed more commonality as they lived under the Jinghpaw political system and associated religious ideology in northern Burma (Myanmar). The Kachin live primarily in the mountainous Kachin State of Myanmar, and parts of the northern Shan State, southwestern Yunnan in China, and the northeastern India (Assam and Arunachal Pradesh). Traditionally, all Kachins were farmers, cultivating rice, together with some other cereals, and a variety of fruits and vegetables. The traditional political system varied from a highly stratified system with strictly ranked aristocratic lineages in some regions to a more egalitarian and democratic system ruled by an elected chief and a council of elders in others.

Rethinking Kachin wealth ownership

Economic geography of a north Burma Kachin village

Political systems of highland Burma

Culture Summary

Toward a basis for understanding the minorities in Burma

On the continuing relevance of E. R. Leach's Political systems of Highland Burma to Kachin studies

Author	Title	Publication Date
Ho Ts'ui-p'ing	Rethinking Kachin wealth ownership	2007
Huke, Robert E.	Economic geography of a north Burma Kachin village	1954
Leach, Edmund Ronald	Political systems of highland Burma	1954
Lehman, F. K.	Culture Summary	2012
Maran, La Raw	Toward a basis for understanding the minorities in Burma	1967
Maran, La Raw	On the continuing relevance of E. R. Leach's Political systems of Highland Burma to Kachin studies	2007
Robinne, François	Bibliography	2007
Sadan, Mandy	Translating gumlau	2007
Wang, Zhusheng	The Jingpo	1997

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