The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Customs, Folklore, Ritual, and Colonial Ethnology in Early 20th-Century BurmaBy Harry Ignatius Marshall
Length11h 47m
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The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology is a substantial early twentieth-century ethnographic account of one of Burma's major upland and lowland minority communities. Marshall surveys Karen origins, clan and village life, marriage, law, music, myth, animist belief, Christian conversion, and linguistic diversity with the classificatory ambition typical of colonial anthropology. Its prose is empirical and descriptive, yet often attentive to oral narrative, ritual detail, and the texture of everyday custom. Read today, the book stands both as a documentary repository and as a product of its scholarly moment, shaped by evolutionist ethnology and missionary-era assumptions. Harry Ignatius Marshall was an American scholar-missionary closely associated with educational and religious work among the Karen. His long residence in Burma, knowledge of local communities, and access to indigenous informants gave him materials unavailable to many armchair ethnologists. At the same time, his Christian commitments and colonial context inform his interpretations, making the volume revealing not only about Karen society but also about Western modes of knowing it. Recommended for historians, anthropologists, Burma specialists, and readers interested in ethnic identity, this book rewards critical reading: indispensable as a source, yet best approached with awareness of its period's limits.
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GenrePsychology
Length11 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 10, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2PREFACE
3PART I. GENERAL TOPICS
4CHAPTER I - HABITAT AND TRIBAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE KAREN
5CHAPTER II - THE ORIGIN OF THE KAREN
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6CHAPTER III - PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
7CHAPTER IV - MENTAL AND MORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KAREN
8CHAPTER V - LANGUAGE
9CHAPTER VI - DRESS AND ORNAMENTS
10CHAPTER VII - MEASURES OF TIME AND SPACE. KAREN ASTRONOMY
11PART II. DOMESTIC LIFE
12CHAPTER VIII - THE KAREN VILLAGE-HOUSE
13CHAPTER IX - FOOD AND ITS PREPARATION
14CHAPTER X - AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS AND OTHER OCCUPATIONS IN THE. HILLS
15CHAPTER XI - HUNTING AND FISHING
16CHAPTER XII - SPINNING, DYEING, AND WEAVING, MAT-MAKING AND. BASKETRY
17CHAPTER XIII - BRONZE DRUMS
18PART III. SOCIAL LIFE
19CHAPTER XIV - SOCIAL CONDITIONS
20CHAPTER XV - LAWS AND PRECEPTS
21CHAPTER XVI - WARFARE AND WEAPONS
22CHAPTER XVII - MUSIC, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, AND DANCING
23CHAPTER XVIII - BRTH CUSTOMS, CHILDHOOD
24CHAPTER XIX - MARRIAGE CUSTOMS
25CHAPTER XX - FUNERAL CUSTOMS
26PART IV. RELIGIOUS LIFE
27CHAPTER XXI - RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS
28CHAPTER XXII - SUPERNATURAL AND MYTHICAL BEINGS
29CHAPTER XXIII - PROPITIATORY SACRIFICES AND HEALING OFFERINGS
30CHAPTER XXIV - FEASTS TO THE "BGHA"
31CHAPTER XXV - MOUNT "THAW THI." RELIGIOUS CULTS
32CHAPTER XXVI - MAGIC
33CHAPTER XXVII - DIVINATIONS
34CHAPTER XXVIII - TABU
35PART V. DEVELOPMENT OF THE KAREN PEOPLE
36CHAPTER XXIX - GROWTH OF CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE KAREN
37CHAPTER XXX - THE PROGRESS OF THE KAREN RACE
38APPENDIXES
39APPENDIX A - GLOSSARY OF KAREN WORDS
40APPENDIX B. - BIBLIOGRAPHY
41THE END
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