The Highland heritage
Subtitle: collected essays on upland North Thailand
By: Anthony R. Walker, editor.
Contributors: Walker, Anthony R.; Geddes, W. R.
Publisher: Suvarnabhumi Books
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: Thailand, Northern -- Social life and customs.; Thailand, Northern -- Civilization.
Description: Festschrift in honor of William Robert Geddes, anthropological field worker.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Northern Thailand as geo-ethnic mossaic / Anthony R. Walker; title: Economic systems and ethnic relations / William Y. Dessaint and Alain T. Dessaint; title: Opium, its production and use in a Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) village community / Anthony R. Walker; title: Akha ethnobotany / Katherine Bragg; title: The movement of Lahu hill people towards a lowland lifestyle / Peter Hoare; title: Basic themes in Akha culture / Paul Lewis; title: The Mlabri people / Jesper Trier; title: Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) village officials and their ordination ceremonies / Anthony R. Walker; title: The religious life of the Yao people / Chob Kacha-ananda; title: Lisu world view / Alain Y. Dessaint; title: Exorcising the jaw and meh spirits / Anthony R. Walker; title: Transformation of Buddhism in the religious ideas and practices of a non-Buddhist hill people / Anthony R. Walker.