Political Systems of Highland Burma
Author | : E. R. Leach |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2021-01-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781000324617 |
ISBN-13 | : 1000324613 |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.