Machine generated contents note: 1.Global histories, local exclusions -- 2.Ritual, ideology and politics -- 3.Boundaries and borders -- 4.Militarisation and the contest of modernities -- 5.War and independence -- 6.Dimokrasi Prat to Rawt Malan! -- 7.Violence -- 8.Virtue -- 9.Transnational symbols in national spaces: the ideological transformation of the manau
Summary
Ethnic conflict has troubled the Kachin region of Burma since 1961. The area is of increasing contemporary interest because it borders India and China and it has the potential to affect Burma's reintegration into mainstream geopolitics. The book examines the conflict within a historical context of marginalisation in the region
Notes
Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-496) and index