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The Lahu Name: Lahu Population: 645,000 Localization: In China, Yunnan Province, Simao, Lincang, Shuangjiang, and Menglian. Also in Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. |
The Lahu people inhabit the hilly regions of the southern part of Yunnan Province, and Thailand, Laos, and Burma
Introductory
Articles in Ethnic China
The equalitarian
Lahu: They still preserve in his cultural, social and
religious life, numerous remains of the gender equality
Lahu history:
From the women's kingdoms to the continuous uprising
The "History of the Lahu" reevaluated: every political action has a political purpose, and the results of academic works politically motivated must be deconstructed to separate the real facts from the political constructions.
Dog and snake in Lahu symbolic universe: They have several myths that remember the contributions of dogs to human welfare.
Creation
myth of the Lahu: Creating Heaven, creating earth tries
to provide a mythic explanation to the world where the Lahu people inhabits.
To doing so the main episodes of the process of creation, creation of
heaven and earth, sun and moon, and human beings.
Scholars Researches available in the Web
Liu Jing-Rong.- A
Study on the Culture of the Dance of Lahu Nationality.
The folk dance of Lahu traces back long into the past. Its coming into being, evolution and development are closely related to its centuries-old cultural tradition. The widely popularized dances include "the Lusheng Dance"
Sombat Boonkamyeung.- The Lahu Symbolic Universe and Reconstruction of Ethnic Identity.
Chalathon
Choocharoen, Pornchai Preechapanya and Andreas Neef.- Palong
and Black Lahu Ecological Knowledge of the Sustainability of Forest Watershed
Management and Agroforestry Ecosystems
For decades, land use practices of ethnic minority people
in the uplands of northern Thailand have been blamed by many scientists
and policy-makers as being unsustainable and causing degradation of natural
forests and watershed functions.
TATSUKI KATAOKA.- THE FORMATION OF ETHNIC AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: A CASE STUDY OF THE LAHU IN THAILAND
Chupinit Kesmanee and Kulawadee Charoensri.- Case study on the effects of tourism on culture and the environment. Thailand.
Converging of a large number of tourists of different background on a historic monument or site and location of tourist facilities on the cultural heritage sites have often resulted not only in altering of the original.
Ma Jianxiong.- Local Knowledge Constructed by the State: Reinterpreting Myths and Imagining the Migration History of the Lahu in Yunnan, Southwest China. Asian Ethnology Volume 68, Number 1 o 2009, 111-129
This
study aims to question such presumptions of locality by investigating
how official history was disseminated locally and how it was reinterpreted
and represented by Lahu communities as local knowledge for ethnographic
research. Therefore, books on Chinese minority nationalities that were
published thereafter all state that the Lahu in Yunnan came from the Qinghai
Lake
area; "Lahu" in the Lahu language literally means "the
hunter of tigers." The knowledge that "the Lahu came from Qinghai
and were tiger hunters" has thus become firmly established in intellectual
circles and is widely accepted in China. However, as a result of research
conducted on the genes of the Lahu people in Lancang County, there are
rather conflicting ideas as to the origins of the Lahu. The results of
fifty-five sample cases revealed that their genes showed no evidence that
they came from the north. In other words, genetically speaking, the Lahu
should be a group that originated in the south.
James A. Matisoff.- Syntactic Parallelism and Morphological Elaboration in Lahu Religious Poetry.
Partly as a compensation for the homophony problem caused by the monosyllabicity of its morphemes, Lahu makes extensive use of compounding, adding phonological bulk to words by hitching extra syllables onto their roots.
Yoichi Nishimoto.- The Religion of the Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) in Northern Thailand: General Description with Preliminary Remarks.
The majority of the Lahu Nyi are still followers of what is considered, both by outside observers and the people themselves, their "traditional religion"
Yoichi Nishimoto.- Myth and Ambiguous ldentity among the Lahu of North Thailand: Legends and the Loss of Letters
This
study takes up the case of the Lahu of northem Thailand and explores the
classification and categorization of the world by the Lahu as opposed
to lowlanders and more over by two Lahu groups with different religious
interest. This study assumes that the Lahu perception of the world is
reflected in the myths or stores told by them.
Shanshan Du.- Frameworks for Societies in Balance: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Gender Equality
Anthony R. Walker.- Cultural Exchange in Southwest China: The Mahoeyoenist Movement among Lahu Mountain People in Southwestern Yunnan
As for Lahu "religious" culture (in so far as the term "religion" presumes a major divide between sacred and secular worlds, is not in the Lahu context a particularly useful one), the indigenous situation, asalready observed, is one common throughout the greater Southeast Asia region.
Anthony
R. Walker.- Shi-
Nyi Lon: Great merit days among the Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) of North Thailand.
This article describes three major ritual occasions in the annual ceremonial cycle of the Lahu Nyi, or Red Lahu, hill people among whom I lived for a number of years in the late 1960s.
Anthony R. Walker.- Sha- LaA Te Ve: The Building of a Merit Shelter Among the Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) of the Northern Thai Uplands. Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 44, 1985, 51-80.
In
this article I examine an important ritual event which follows immediately
after at least one, and sometimes all, of these shi- nyi lon-. This is
the construction of a rest
shelter along the pathway to a Lahu Nyi village.
Sanit
Wongsprasert.- Opiate
of the People? A Case Study of Lahu Opium Addicts
There
can be no doubt that the principal reason why people smoke is not only
that opium is available but that a general sense of malaise and hopelessness
pervades much of the highland world. Broad structural issues that define
their precarious position in wider society exert an overall negative influence
on their daily existence,
Books
and references
A
nice book about the Lahu: Du Shanshan's "Chopsticks only work in
pairs"
Some
books about the Lahu
Chinese
Bibliography of the Lahu
Anthony R. Walker: Publications on the Lahu peoples 1968-2007: A complete bibliography of one of the most interesting scholars researching the Lahu.
Thesis and dissertations
Chaninthon Sawanaphakdi.- The Thai naturalization of the Lahu people in Chiang Rai province 2003
This study aims to find out the process and problems occurred in the status categorization process of Lahu people in Chiang Rai province as case study,
Amber Morris.- Selected Discourse Features of Lahu Si Folk Narrative
The object of this thesis is to apply these discourse features to four Lahu Si texts. Each of these texts are animal folk narratives elicited from native Lahu Si speakers in the Chiang Rai province of Northern Thailand. The goal of this thesis is to look broadly at several different aspects of discourse analysis of Lahu Si.
Upai Jasa.- Aspects of Discourse Cohesion in Lahu si folk tales. 2009
A discourse is a connected speech which contains sufficiently clear and specific cultural elements that tie it together into a unified whole. Thus, cohesion is the primary means to make a discourse coherent or allow it to make sense by using different types of grammatical devices.
Photo Exhibitions
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about the Lahu
Music
Lahu
music
Films and Video
Documentary
Films about the Lahu
Available dvds and vcds about the Lahu
Image of the the Lahu in the cinema
Art and Handicrafts
The
Lahu in the art
Art Exhibitions
Travel
Travel
to Lahu lands
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