No.74 Written Cultures in Mainland Southeast Asia

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No.74 Written Cultures in Mainland Southeast Asia

Senri Ethnological Studies (SES)

No.74 Written Cultures in Mainland Southeast Asia

March 31, 2009 Publication

Edited by Masao KASHINAGA

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Contents

Introduction

Masao KASHINAGA

Preliminary Notes on “the Cultural Region of Tham Script Manuscripts”

Akiko IIJIMA

Scripts and History: the Case of Laos

Michel LORRILLARD

Interpretation of Migration History in Rural Development Age: Written Documents
and Other Sources of History

Yuji BABA

Magical Use of Traditional Scripts in Northeastern Thai Villages

Fumihiko TSUMURA

Lik Long (Great Manuscripts) and Care: the Role of Lay Intellectuals in Shan Buddhism

Tadayoshi MURAKAMI

The Transmission of Written Genealogies and Patrilineality among the Tai Dam

Masao KASHINAGA

The Functions of Chinese Literacy in the Iu Mien Society of Northern Thailand

Akira YOSHINO

The Symbolic Role of Literacy as a Standard to Distinguish the Raglai from the Cham

Toshihiko SHINE

Script as the Narrator: Oral Tradition and Literacy in Tay Maaw Chronicles

Christian DANIELS

List of Contributors

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