Founders' cults in Southeast Asia : ancestors, polity, and identity

Founders' cults in Southeast Asia : ancestors, polity, and identity / edited by Nicola Tannenbaum and Cornelia Ann Kammerer.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tannenbaum, Nicola Beth, Kammerer, Cornelia Ann, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2003.
Series:Monograph series (Yale University. Southeast Asia Studies) ; no. 52.
Subjects:
Cults > Southeast Asia.
Ethnology > Southeast Asia.
Table of Contents:
  • The relevance of the founders' cult for understanding the political systems of the peoples of northern Southeast Asia and its Chinese borderlands / F.K. Lehman (F.K.L. Chit Hlaing)
  • Spirit cults among Akha highlanders of northern Thailand / Cornelia Ann Kammerer
  • "Thigh-eating chiefs" in an egalitarian society: the case of Akha highlanders of northern Thailand / Cornelia Ann Kammerer
  • Mothers of the land: vitality and order in the Toraja highlands / Elizabeth Coville
  • Expanding spiritual territories: owners of the land, missionization, and migration in central Sulawesi / Lorraine C. Aragon
  • The decline of founders' cults and changing configuration of power: village and forest among Karen in the Thai state / Yoko Hayami
  • Publicizing rituals and privatizing meanings: negotiating an identity of the Gumai of Sumatra / Minako Sakai
  • Reconfiguration of village guardian spirits among the Thai-Lao in northeast Thailand / Nicola Tannenbaum
  • Phaya Sihanatraja and the founding of Maehongson / Nicola Tannenbaum
  • Pedestrian politics: the social focus of founders, migration, and ritual / Hjörleifur Jønsson
  • From "fertility" to "order," paternalism to profits: the Thai city's impact on the culture-environment interface / Richard A. O'Connor
  • Founders' cults in regional and historical perspective / Richard A. O'Connor.

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