Ethnic Groups

“Will the Snakes Swallow the Singers?” Traditional Music of the Hill Tribes

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289th INTG Meeting – A Talk and Presentation by John Moore This is the script of John’s talk. Each slide in John’s presentation showed either a singer, a musician with their instrument or an instrument. After talking about the subject of the slide, John then played an extract of the music of the subject of … Read more

The Tree of Immeasurable Wealth – Inside and Outside of Rmeet Society, Highland Laos

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285th INTG Meeting – A Talk by Dr. Guido Sprenger Whenever Rmeet – an upland ethnic group of northern Laos, also called Lamet – discuss their relationship with the wealthy lowland, a particular story is invoked: Two Rmeet orphan boys plant a tree that produces money and valuables, but threatens the entire society. A closer … Read more

Border Landscapes: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand

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283rd INTG Meeting – A Talk and Presentation by Dr. Janet C. Sturgeon The Full Text of Janet’s Talk and Presentation Border Landscapes looks at Akha access to resources and land use as influenced both by their location on international borders, and by their incorporation into modernizing nation-states. Today I’m covering the second part, the … Read more

Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China’s Southwest Borders

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276th INTG Meeting – A Talk by Sara L. M. Davis “An exemplary study of cross-border culture. Davis’s original and deeply probing account of state-sponsored musical culture and of the musical practices that both transcend and subvert it deserves, like the music it depicts, to travel widely.“James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and … Read more

Continuation and Disruption of the Karen Religious Movement: Case of the Myitta Byamasoe in Burma

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270th INTG Meeting – A Talk and Presentation by Dr. Kwanchewan Buadaeng 1, 2 Full Text of Dr. Kwanchewan’s Talk and Presentation The majority of the Karen peoples live in the frontier between Burma3 and Thailand. In Burma, while some Karen live in the mountainous areas near to the border, many live on the plain … Read more

The Elusive Isan Nang Talung

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269th INTG Meeting – A talk and presentation by Dr. Bonnie Brereton, PhD Bonnie Brereton Resume: brereton.b@gmail.com Professional Experience: Free-lance editor, writer, researcher, Chiang Mai, August 2005-present.Lecturer, Thai and Southeast Studies Program, Payap University, Chiang Mai, 2003-2005.Academic Director, Thai and Southeast Studies Program, Payap University, Chiang Mai, 2003-2005.Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Khon Kaen University Jan-June, 2003.Project … Read more

Is “Taization” Equivalent to Assimilation

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268th INTG Meeting – A talk by Olivier Evrard Acculturation and Perpetuation of Ethnic Boundaries in Northern Thailand and Laos About the Speaker Olivier Evrard is an anthropologist at IRD (Institut de Recherché pour le Developpement, previously called Orstom) and is currently collaborating with the Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University. He has been doing … Read more

Politics and Professionalism in Community Development – Examining Intervention in the Highlands of Northern Thailand

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267th INTG Meeting – A Talk and LCD Presentation by Dr. Katharine McKinnon About Dr. McKinnon Katharine was recently awarded her PhD in Human Geography at the Australian National University. Her dissertation was written following a year of fieldwork based in Chiang Mai. She is now a post-doctoral research fellow in Development Studies at Massey … Read more