Book
The Jingpo: Kachin of the Yunnan Plateau
Program for Southeast Asian Studies • Tempe, Ariz. • Published In 1997 • Pages: xx, 360
By: Wang, Zhusheng.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Real property
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- Status, role, and prestige
- Settlement patterns
- Gift giving
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Mode of marriage
- Nuptials
- Income and demand
- Standard of living
- Exchange transactions
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Household
- Cereal agriculture
- Territorial hierarchy
- Special crops
- Mythology
- Classes
- Revolution
- Labor supply and employment
- Cult of the dead
- Missions
- Research and development
- Local officials
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kachin
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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
- Book
- 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; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- mid-1980s
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not assigned
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kachin people, Yunnan Plateau, Burma
- NotesAdditional notes
- Zhusheng Wang ; foreword by F.K. Lehman
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-354) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98198570
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jingpo (Chinese people)
- Kachin (Asian people)