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Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure (LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS MONOGRAPHS ON SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY) by Edmund Ronald Leach is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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.
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- Author
- Edmund Ronald Leach
- Publisher
- The Athlone Press
- Published
- 1970
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781003136576
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology