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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Sadan, Mandy
Title:
Translating gumlau: history, the 'Kachin' and Edmund
Leach
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Social dynamics in the highlands of Southeast Asia:
reconsidering political systems of Highland Burma by E.R. Leach, edited by François
Robinne and Mandy Sadan
Published By: Original publisher
Social dynamics in the highlands of Southeast Asia:
reconsidering political systems of Highland Burma by E.R. Leach, edited by François
Robinne and Mandy Sadan
Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 2007. 67-87 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Mandy Sadan
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2012. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Kachin (AP06)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Cultural identity and pride (186);
Reviews and critiques (114);
Glossary (104);
External relations (648);
Revolution (669);
Verbal arts (5310);
Political movements (668);
General character of religion (771);
Mythology (773);
Texts in the speaker's language (901);
Audiovisual records and equipment (216);
Prayers and sacrifices (782);
Sociolinguistics (195);
Priesthood (793);
Historical and archival research (127);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses the many meanings of the Kachin
word 'Gumlau' which, according to the author, was not well translated in 19th and early
20th ethnographic texts on Kachin peoples. It shows that both 'gumlau' and 'gumsa' are
highly problematic historically. As used by Leach, 'gumlau' refers to a system with an
egalitarian, non-hereditary system of leadership. In recent years, however, the term is
used by Kachin nationalists into an ideological narrative of revolt against despotism. It
is used to reconstruct and describe the ideal Kachin polity; a proto-democratic,
enlightened leadership that does not exclude the possibility of heredity where
appropriate.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
37
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
ap06-037
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
For bibliographical references see document 34:Robinne
and Sadan
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1996-1999
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Historian-4, 5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Teferi Abate Adem; 2011
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1888-2007
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Kachin people, Burma and China
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Kachin (Asian people)
