Emerging Sexual Inequality Among the Lisu of Northern Thailand

Name: Emerging Sexual Inequality Among the Lisu of Northern Thailand
Brand: Brill
SKU: 9789004090491-G
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By Klein-Hutheesing

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The Lisu people, whose lives have been recorded in this publication, are predominantly women of a mountain community in northern Thailand. Along with their men, they have been growing poppies for opium for over a century, the sales of which have been sustained their non-authoritarian society and its implied repute ideology. While living with them for several years, the author observed how newly introduced substitute crops involving a change in production and trade relations had upset the previously egalitarian basis of female and male worth, as exemplified in the metaphor of elephant and dog. The modified gender system in which the Lisu female has become an underdog is described against the backdrop of conventional ideas regarding the cosmic forces, the division of labour, bridewealth and marriage.

Product details

Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 217
Release Date:: 1990-03-01
Publication Date:: 1990-03-01
Publisher:: Brill
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 9004090495
ISBN13:: 9789004090491
Weight:: 581 g
Height:: 166 cm
Width:: 244 cm
Thickness:: 21 cm

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