Upland people in Northern Thailand

Scope and content :

Upland people, Northern Thailand. 35 records. The series consists of draft of papers, reports, articles, and books recorded during their fieldwork about the upland people in Northern Thailand in 1963. The records pertained report of the Benington-Cornell survey of a hill region in Thailand, upland villagers from the valley of the Mea Kok to the Burma border, report of a field trip to north of Thailand, upland and lowland village relations in northern Thailand , the problems of ethnicity in a district of northern Thailand. Including with other materials that related to hill-tribes people study in Thailand.

Repository : SAC

Extent and medium : 35 records that consists of draft of papers, reports, articles, and books

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer : Donated by Jane Richardson Hanks, 2007.

System of arrangemant : The series base on the field site.

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Creative Commons License : Attribution (CC BY)

Traditional Knowledge License : Traditional Knowledge Attribution (TK A)

Language : English/Thai

Script : English/Thai

Rule or convention : Collection, series and file level description based on ISAD(G)

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11. Reference : H-1-1-8

Changing the guard (General Tuan Shin Wen visit)

| Lucien Hanks visited General Tuan Shih-wen, leader of the 93rd division of the Kuomintang, in Mae Salong in 1979. Previously encountered in 1964 as a military camp, by 1979 it was a village housing many refugee Chinese, and opium cultivation had given way to tea plantations. While there, Hanks investigated the background of General Tuan Shih-wen. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

Changing the guard (General Tuan Shin Wen visit)

12. Reference : H-1-1-9

First monthly report of the Benington-Cornell Survey of a Hill Region in Thailand

| 6 December 1963 – Hanks report to the Department of Public Welfare, the Border Police, and the National Research Council from Nikhom Chiengdao, Mae Taeng District, Chiang Mai Province. Included in the report are details of the researchers’ life there, information on members of the research team, ethnic groups in the settlement and their relationship with Thai people, their participation in national life and the education of their children. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

First monthly report of the Benington-Cornell Survey of a Hill Region in Thailand

13. Reference : H-1-1-4

Persia and China : their responses to the Mongol Invasion

| Lucien M. Hanks compares the responses to Mongol invasion of both societies to a typical laboratory procedure in science, whereby acid is poured over two unknown substances, the reactions of which to the acid are indicative of their characteristics. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

Persia and China : their responses to the Mongol Invasion

14. Reference : H-1-1-5

Lahu (pp 249 et seq)

| The Lahu live in China, Thailand and Myanmar. Although most are uneducated, education and military conscription are eradicating the traditional Lahu way of life. Nonetheless, education can be seen to have advantages for the Lahu people, who through education learn how to live more hygienically and how to take better pride in themselves. While appearance and language are changing, the traditional religion remains strong, with strong animist tendencies. In Thailand, Lahu are only known by official class, and they rarely intermingle with the people of the plains. As a result, their understanding of the wider world is limited, and, cut off from society, they find it difficult to make progress | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

Lahu (pp 249 et seq)

15. Reference : H-1-1-2

Akha through Time and Space

| Originally from China, the Akha settled for many years in Myanmar’s Shan State before crossing over into the mountainous areas of Chiang Rai Province in Thailand, where Hanks’ informants were based. The Akha are the southernmost extension of the Tibeto-Burman speaking peoples that include the Woni and the Hani in China. Like other Tibeto-Burman speaking groups, they maintain their tribal and personal history through oral recitations of the names of people and places. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

Akha through Time and Space

16. Reference : H-1-1-3

The Power of Akha Women

| Jane R. Hanks began her research in 1963 by surveying the upland tribes living in the Mae Kok/Mae Kham rivers drainages in northern Thailand’s Chiang Rai Province. The Akha way of life reflects balanced gender roles. In the context of the community and household, a demarcation is made between the areas of male and female capacities and responsibilities, and between the practical and ritual spheres. In her work Hanks sketches a woman’s life and projects it into the cosmological sphere, where the meaning of sexual intercourse among the Akha is developed. The power of Akha women to conceive is perceived in its relation to Akha society and the spirit world. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

The Power of Akha Women

17. Reference : H-1-4-5

Reporton Tribal People in Chiengrai Province , L M ,J R Hanks – Lauriston Ruth Sharp

| 1964 – A report by Lucien M. Hanks, Jane R. Hanks, Lauriston Sharp and Ruth B. Sharp of Cornell University, focusing on the relationship between upland and lowland villagers. The report includes a description of the Mae Kok region in terms of its geography, population, migration, transportation, government services, the mobility of wealth, the cash economy, commerce, the sense of the economy, leadership, health, education, and special relations between villages and between upland and lowland areas. It also contains recommendations for dealing with problems of population subsistence, the cash economy, government services for hill areas, health, education, communications, relationships between Thai and tribal people, and how to sustain a vital program. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

Reporton Tribal People in Chiengrai Province , L M ,J R Hanks – Lauriston Ruth Sharp

18. Reference : H-1-4-7

Upland – Lowland Village Relations in Northern Thailand

| 1972 – Differences of ecology, language and culture between upland and lowland villages lead to both alliances and hostilities. Relationships take the form of those between employer and laborer, or are evinced during commerce and trading. Some of these relationships are particularly intense. Moreover, a number of upland villagers have moved to lowland areas, while a few Thai Christians have moved to live in upland villages. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

Upland – Lowland Village Relations in Northern Thailand

19. Reference : H-1-4-13

An Heritage of Defeat : Hill tribes out of China

| 1984 – Hanks studied four hill tribes in Chiang Rai Province – the Lisu, Lahu Akha and Yao - which migrated from China due to war. Hanks explained what he describes as an ethnic anomaly, the passing of tales of defeat to younger generations, together with the peculiarities of these four tribes, the history of all four tribes and possible cities lost in battle and other occasions for stress, and the importance of ethnic tradition in societal events along the borders of southern China. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

An Heritage of Defeat : Hill tribes out of China

20. Reference : H-1-4-14

Reflections on Ban Akha Mae Salong

| 1975 – Published in the journal of the Siam society, January 1975, vol.63, part 1, this article looks at an Akha village in Mae Salong, asking how refugees from a disaster can return to continue their customary lives when the threats have ebbed. These villages show symptoms of a more profound and irreversible transformation of the entire upland area of this region. Hanks also looks at economic and cultural contributions. | Typescript

by : Lucien and Jane Hanks

Reflections on Ban Akha Mae Salong