Book
The Karens of Burma
Longmans, Green and Co. • (8) • Published In 1945 • Pages: 40
By: Marshall, Harry Ignatius.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the eighth of a series prepared in India, by and for the British government, in connection with World War II dislocations in Burma. This number concerns itself with the Karen ethnic groups ('tribe') of Burma; their culture, their relations with the Burmese and the British, their acculturation and their conversion, in part, to Christianity. The author was for some time a missionary amongst these people and has written a long monograph on them, generally held to be a definitive work.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethos
- Cultural identity and pride
- Inter-community relations
- Ethnic stratification
- Missions
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Education system
- Cereal agriculture
- Community structure
- Community councils
- Community heads
- Political movements
- History
- Citizenship
- Military organization
- Missions
- Religious denominations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Karen
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- F. K. Lehman ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1910
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1910-1945
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Karen people, Burma
- NotesAdditional notes
- Harry I. Marshall, with 8 illustrations specially drawn by C. H. G. Moorhouse, and 1 map
- Map on lining-paper. 'First published May, 1945.'
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 47002118
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Karen (Southeast Asian people)