Title: Political systems of Highland Burma :
Authors: Leach, E. R.; Firth, Raymond,
Date: 1965
Publisher: Beacon Press,
Physical description: xx, 324 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Abstract: "For the first time a modern type of sociological analysis has been applied to the rich ethnographic material of northern Southeast Asia in this book. While making full use of the techniques which social anthropologists had developed during the previous decade, mainly on the basis of African materials, this book marked a departure from then current orthodoxies and has come to be recognized as constituting an outstanding development in the field of anthropological theory."--Back cover.
Notes: "First published as a Beacon Paperback in 1965 by arrangement with the London School of Economics and Political Science." "Beacon BP 192"--Cover. Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Ahoms (Indic people)--Social life and customs.; Ethnology--Burma.; Kachin (Asian people); Kachin (Asian people)--Burma.; Kachin (Asian people)--Politics and government.; Kachin (Asian people)--Social life and customs.; Social structure--Burma--Case studies.