Anthropological Archives Database

1. Reference : H-1-2-10

Jane Hamilton-Merritt, : “Southeast Aisan Hill Tribes Survive”

| Article by Jane Hamilton-Merritt about the lives of hill tribe peoples living in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. In some countries, members of hill tribe peoples are being conscripted into national armies. These hill tribe peoples are being destroyed economically, culturally and physically. Relatively unknown to the outside world, hill tribes face the risk of extinction with no medicine, no education, no say over their fate and no means to change their slash and burn economy. Once proud peoples with a rich heritage, they are now little more than refugees. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

2. Reference : H-1-2-9

Yatsushiro : The Frist Symposium on Hill-Tribes and Thailand

| Record of the First Symposium on Hill-Tribes and Thailand held during August 28 through September 1, 1967, in Chiang Mai, sponsored by the Tribal Research Centre (Dept. of Public Welfare) in co-operation with Chiang Mai University. Observed and recorded by ToshioYatsushiro. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

3. Reference : H-1-2-8

Summary of Data from Mea Kok Area of Thailand with some Afterthroughs on Upland Settlement Patterns : L M and Jane R Hanks, Lauriston Sharp

| A summary outlining the physical geography, the human population, human well-being, the boundaries of the area, the population distribution, political arrangements, the social gradients of the area, patterns of movement within the area, the direction of movements, the dispersal of villagers and ethnic factors in settlement, and including some generalizations about upland settlement patterns. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

4. Reference : H-1-2-7

Paul Lewism: Lahu Education – PartI ,Akha Education – PartI

| A number of village-educated Lahu students have been given the opportunity to further their education at secondary schools in Chiang Mai, where they live in a Lahu hostel supported by the International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches USA. The education of Akha students, meanwhile, is supported by the Hill Tribes Forward Fund, the International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches USA, and the Howard and Bush Foundations. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

5. Reference : H-1-2-6

Report of a field trip to north, Thailand, 1963

| Report of a field trip to northern Thailand between 8-31 August 1963 aimed at selecting a location for carrying out anthropological fieldwork and gathering initial information on working conditions with a view to planning later work. This survey took place in Chiang Dao, Plao, Mae Chan, Tak, Phrae and Nan. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

6. Reference : H-1-1-10

Proposal for an Anthropological Survey of Hill Region in Southeast Asia

| Intended primarily as a means to collect information for anthropological science, this survey may also be of interest to national governments concerned with the welfare of hill-dwelling people. The relative obscurity of peoples living in the hill regions stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the eastern borders of India have made them of particular interest to anthropologists. This survey focuses on questions including whether these tribal people are being absorbed into the national majority populations of the countries in which they live, the extent to which these people are maintaining their tribal life, whether tribal movements can be constructed for a region, and whether present tribal movements reflect historical ones. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

7. Reference : H-1-1-11

Proposal for a 1974 Survey in Chiangrai Province

| Following surveys in 1964 and 1969 of villages with diverse ethnic populations in the Mae Kok uplands of northern Thailand, Lucien Hanks proposed to return for a third survey, occasioned by changes made evident by comparing the 1964 findings with those of 1969, including increased population, the number of villages, the movement of villages, loss of forest cover, and contacts with both the Thai population and government. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

8. Reference : H-1-2-2

Change comes to Anwang

| Article by George Orick, published in the Ford Foundation Report, vol.23 no.4, 1992. Anwang located in China’s Yunnan Province, where 94% of the area is mountainous, Anwang is a remote rural region. The government has reached out to encourage far-reaching changes in the area’s traditional subsistence farming methods, describing these changes as “poverty alleviation”. Anwang was established by minority people driven to marginal land by the expanding Han majority. Some villagers have begun to think of marketing tiny food surpluses outside the village. However, Anwang’s people are uneducated and remain geographically isolated. Although the village now has a road, there is as yet no electricity. The main impetus for change in recent times was the abolition in 1982 of communes and their replacement by township governments charged with establishing a “responsibility system” of land tenure. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

9. Reference : H-1-1-13

Preliminary Report on Upland Villagers from the Valley of the Mea Kok to the Burma Border

| July 1974 - This report deals primarily with data gathered by the Bennington-Cornell Survey of Hill Tribes from December 1973 to may 1974, mainly in the hills of Chiang Rai province. The Survey also gathered data on the same region in 1964 and 1969, and includes data concerning general observations and problems in the region. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

10. Reference : H-1-1-12

Village Questionaire 1969

| A questionnaire in which information is collected about village names, headmen, tribal affiliation, other tribal residents in the village, the village history, village personnel, rice, livestock, remunerated livelihoods, special purchases, hiring, relations with other villages, specific contacts and special features of the village. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks