Political systems of Highland Burma
Subtitle: a study of Kachin social structure
By: by E.R. Leach ; with a foreword by Raymond Firth, with a new introducotry note by the author.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Kachin (Asian people); Ethnology -- Burma
Description: "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.

Bibliograhy: p. 313-318.