Anthropological Archives Database

Year 1958-1961

January 10, 1961 A letter in French language.

Year 1979-1981

Ban Phaed first day 1979

The first day at Ban Phaed in 1979 Moerman returned to Ban Phaed, and saw Tung Daeng [Red Lanna Flag] and a woman wearing a red wrap skirt with a head cloth in the Lue tradition. Moerman found Po Mai Kaew, and there was a change due to new roads, and new houses. The farming was quite similar to the previous cultivation, however some people used a tractor. At Ban Waen and Chaing Ban there was electricity, but not at Ban Phaed. The civil boy scouts came to a reunion for training and making friends. The riversides were cleared for planting rice, beans, tobacco, vegetables. Most of the houses had a toilet.

by : Michael Moerman

Year 1979-1981

Ban Phaed. Economic changes

Economic changes at Ban Phaed. The forests between Ban Phaed and Chiang Ban and between Ban Phaed and Pha Lad no longer existed, and the area was converted into plantation. The trees had been used for making house poles and firewood. Now, to find firewood was challenging because the police arrested trespassers in the forest, and imposed a fine. So the villagers went to collect firewood on the mountainside. Kham Pings daughter farmed the land purchased by her father. The cultivation of tobacco took place following the rice harvest, and water from the irrigation system, instead from the Waen River, was utilized for the cultivation of tobacco leaves. The Den Chai village chief related that approximately 40% of the crop was damaged by drought. Girls from Chiang Ban came to find to work in the area.

by : Michael Moerman

Year 1979-1981

Meet Khamping in Chiengmai

Moerman met Po Kham Ping in Chiang Mai. Kham Ping related the following information: Muang was still the richest person in the village; Saeng was head assistant of the village; Po Saeng and Mae Saeng were still alive but Phom Boonsri had passed away. A problem that occurred with the Kham Ping administration was unresolved because he was not powerful enough. Kham Ping also related that Ban Phaed and Chiang Kham had changed. The rich were richer, while those who were poor became poorer. Public ponds where the villagers could fish became property of the rich.

by : Michael Moerman

Year 1979-1981

Chiengkham (4 February 79)

December 4, 1979 Chiang Kham. A priest related that those who graduated from higher education would not do any manual labor - if they could not find a good job, they might become gangsters or drug-addicted in the city or communists into the wild. Whatever their parents worked, their child might worked similarly. The Den Chai village chief related that if the state aided workers in agriculture, it would become the wealth of the country. The road to Nan was not safe and the villagers hired Ho soldiers [Yunnanese soldiers] for protection. Quinine for migrants was traded in the market, since the outbreak of malaria. Vitamin deficiencies of the people had increased, and TB remained a major problem. Leprosy was back. Officials recommended that people had to keep quiet about problems with land tenure, otherwise they could be shot. For example Hmong had been shot and killed in disputes over land for opium, payment for bribery, or accusations of being a Communist.

by : Michael Moerman

Year 1958-1961

illegitimate child of Suk

Investigating the case of a child born of wedlock. Suk was at the house of the village headman.

by : Michael Moerman

Year 1958-1961

HH: mE En

Survey of farming. Mae Ann had nine rai [a measurement equal to 1,600 square meters], and this household could produce 11 buckets of rice. There were over 10 rai of rice fields at Tung Lo. They could produce seven buckets without a tractor there.