{"product_id":"a-sense-of-place-and-belonging-the-chiang-tung-borderland-of-northern-southeast-asia-paperback","title":"A Sense of Place and Belonging: The Chiang Tung Borderland of Northern Southeast Asia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKlemens Karlsson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Sense of Place and Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e examines a marginalized society, Chiang Tung (Keng Tung) in the Eastern Shan State of Myanmar, between the dominant cultures of the Burmese, Chinese, and Siamese\/Thai.\u003c\/b\u003e Chiang Tung sits at the historic borderland known as the Golden Triangle, an area marked by drug trade, human trafficking, and civil war. Hiding a glorious literary and visual cultural tradition from the fourteenth century, Chiang Tung is remarkable for how well it has maintained its Buddhist culture in the turbulent history of war and forced resettlement that formed northern Southeast Asia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlemens Karlsson examines the connection between the Buddhist traditions, the ancient cult of territory spirits--a cult of the earth, place, and village that forms a kind of religious map--and the monsoon culture of wet rice irrigation. Tying together myths and memories told by local people and written in local chronicles with the unique performance of the Songkran festival, which dramatizes a symbolic agreement between Tai Khuen people and the indigenous Lua\/Lawa people, \u003ci\u003e A Sense of Place and Belonging \u003c\/i\u003epresents a historical, political, religious, and cultural context connecting the present with the past, the local with the global, and tradition with change and transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlemens Karlsson is Affiliated Researcher at the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. He received his PhD from Uppsala University in the history of religions and has spent his career as a university and research librarian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 246\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45589720858726,"sku":"9781501779763","price":70.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/ayxQ7eCU--9781501779763.webp?v=1778021588","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/a-sense-of-place-and-belonging-the-chiang-tung-borderland-of-northern-southeast-asia-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}