Political Systems of Highland Burma

Political Systems of Highland Burma PDF Author: E. R. Leach
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000324613
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Book Description
The main body of the book is concerned with the theme that empirical political behaviour among the Kachin is a compromise response to the polarised political doctrines of gumsa and gumlao.. Nearly one-third of this book consists of Chapter V entitiled 'The Structural Categories of Kachin Gumsa Society'. It is concerned with the interpretation of a series of verbal concepts and their interconnections. This long chapter is placed between a relatively short account of a particular Kachin community directly observed (Chapter IV) and a series of chapters (VI, VII, VIII) containing secondhand ethnographic and historical evidence.