 | Mien Relations: Mountain People and State Control in Thailand Subjects: Yao (Southeast Asian people) -- Thailand Northern -- Government relations; Yao (Southeast Asian people) -- Thailand Northern -- Ethnic identity; Mountain people -- Thailand Northern -- Government relations; Minorities -- Government policy -- Thailand ; Thailand's hill tribes have been the object of anthropological research, cultural tourism, and government intervention for a century, in large part because these groups are held to have preserved distinctive ethnic traditions despite their contacts... Hjorleifur Jonsson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University. |
