Gravers, Mikael

Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma

Preface vii Acknowledgements xiii Contributors xiv Abbreviations xviii Introduction: Ethnicity against State -- State against Ethnic Diversity? 1(33) Mikael Gravers Constructing and Contesting the Category `Kachin' in the Colonial and post-Colonial Burmese State 34(43) Mandy Sadan Reshaping Karenni-ness in Exile: Education, Nationalism and Being in the Wider World 77(30) Sandra Dudley Some Remarks upon Ethnicity Theory and Southeast Asia, with Special Reference to the Kayah and the Kachin 107(16) F. K. L. Chit Hlaing Mapping the Kachin Political Landscape: Constructing, Contesting and Crossing Borders 123(26) Karin Dean Ceasefires and Civil Society: the Case of the Mon 149(29) Ashley South Who Are the Shan? An Ethnological Perspective 178(22) Takatani Michio Christianity and Chin Identity 200(27) Lian H. Sakhong Conversion and Identity: Religion and the Formation of Karen Ethnic Identity in Burma 227(32) Mikael Gravers References 259(20) Index 279