This is a book about social differentiation and distinction in one of the ethnically and politically most complex regions of the world, dealing with crucial issues in currently renewed debates on cultural pluralism, nationalism, irredentism and ethnic dispersal. The themes are given a regional and historical focus by treating peoples within the Tai-speaking regions of mainland South East Asia, namely the two basically Tai states, Thailand and Laos, and Tai areas in Burma, China, Vietnam and Malaysia. The book examines representations of non-Tai peoples by various Tai, and representations of Tai by others, and the related experiences of each as they have interacted with different Tai political spaces. The historical scope includes contemporary policy debates on 'nationalities; of 'minorities; policy in the light of earlier colonial and pre-colonial situations.
Author(s): Andrew Turton
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 393
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Maps
Plates
Part I: Inter-Ethnic Relations in Tai Political Domains
1. Introduction to Civility and Savagery • Andrew Turton
Part II: Internal Histories and Comparisons
Introduction
2. The Others Within: Travel and Ethno-Spatial Differentiation of Siamese Subjects 1885–1910 • Thongchai Winichakul
3. The Differential Integration of Hill People into the Thai State • Ronald D. Renard
4. Ritual Relations and Identity: Hmong and Others • Nicholas Tapp
5. The Politics of Cosmology: An Introduction to Millenarianism and Ethnicity among Highland Minorities of Northern Thailand • Claes Corlin
6. Akha Internal History: Marginalization and the Ethnic Alliance System • Leo Alting von Geusau
Part III: Thai-Malay Borderlands
Introduction
7. The Historical Development of Thai-Speaking Muslim Communities in Southern Thailand and Northern Malaysia • Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian
8. Emergence and Transformation of Peripheral Ethnicity: Sam Sam on the Thai-Malaysian Border • Ryoko Nishii
Part IV: Laos: A Poly-Ethnic State
Introduction
9. A Princess in a People's Republic: A New Phase in the Construction of the Lao Nation • Charles F. Keyes
10. Nationalities Policy in Modern Laos • Igor Kossikov
11. Tribal Politics in Laos • Mayoury Ngaosyvathn
12. Tai-Ization: Ethnic Change in Northern Indo-China • Grant Evans
Part V: Lanna and Neighbours
Introduction
13. Autochthony and the Inthakhin Cult of Chiang Mai • Shigeharu Tanabe
14. Tai Lue of Sipsongpanna and Miiang Nan in the Nineteenth-Century • Ratanaporn Sethakul
15. Ethnic Heterogeneity and Elephants in Nineteenth-Century Lanna Statecraft • Katherine A. Bowie
Part VI: Postscript
16. A New Stage in Tai Regional Studies: The Challenge of Local Histories • Nicholas Tapp
Appendix: Illustrations: sources and note
Index
