The enigmatic clans of the Palaung: kinship clusters and continuity in Upper Burma
This essay tries to bring some clarity to the notion of ‘clan' as employed by early British ethnographers and administrators of Upper Burma, especially with regard to the Palaung population of the Shan States. Several aspects of the ethnographic records of a hundred years ago are examined and d...
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Anthropological Society of Oxford
2021
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