This text provides a mulitdisciplinary analysis of the ethnic groups of Southeast Asia which have maintained highly original cultural identities and political and economic traditions, against pressure from national majorities.

Authored by Michaud, Jean; Ovesen, Jan

Introduction Montagnard Domain in the South-East Asian Massif, John McKinnon, Jean Michaud; Chapter 1 Migrants, Runaways and Opium Growers: Origins of the Hmong in Laos and Siam in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Christian Culas; Chapter 2 ::, Jean Michaud; Chapter 3 The Western Protestant Missionaries and the Miao in Yunnan and Guizhou, Southwest China, Alison Lewis; Chapter 4 The Karens: Loyalism and Self-Determination, Clive Christie; Chapter 5 ::, Oscar Salemink; Chapter 6 Emergence of a Leading Group: A Case Study of the Inter-Ethnic Relationships in the Southern Shan State, François Robinne; Chapter 7 ::, Peter Kunstadter; Chapter 8 The Impact of Trekking Tourism in a Changing Society: A Karen Village in Northern Thailand, Henry Bartsch; Chapter 9 Traditional Tribal What? Sports, Culture and the State in the Northern Hills of Thailand, Hjorleifur Jonsson;