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Harry Ignatius Marshall. The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology
The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology
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PREFACE
PART I. GENERAL TOPICS
CHAPTER I - HABITAT AND TRIBAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE KAREN
CHAPTER II - THE ORIGIN OF THE KAREN
CHAPTER III - PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
CHAPTER IV - MENTAL AND MORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KAREN
CHAPTER V - LANGUAGE
CHAPTER VI - DRESS AND ORNAMENTS
CHAPTER VII - MEASURES OF TIME AND SPACE. KAREN ASTRONOMY
PART II. DOMESTIC LIFE
CHAPTER VIII - THE KAREN VILLAGE-HOUSE
CHAPTER IX - FOOD AND ITS PREPARATION
CHAPTER X - AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS AND OTHER OCCUPATIONS IN THE HILLS
CHAPTER XI - HUNTING AND FISHING
CHAPTER XII - SPINNING, DYEING, AND WEAVING, MAT-MAKING AND BASKETRY
CHAPTER XIII - BRONZE DRUMS
PART III. SOCIAL LIFE
CHAPTER XIV - SOCIAL CONDITIONS
CHAPTER XV - LAWS AND PRECEPTS
CHAPTER XVI - WARFARE AND WEAPONS
CHAPTER XVII - MUSIC, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, AND DANCING
CHAPTER XVIII - BRTH CUSTOMS, CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER XIX - MARRIAGE CUSTOMS
CHAPTER XX - FUNERAL CUSTOMS
PART IV. RELIGIOUS LIFE
CHAPTER XXI - RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS
CHAPTER XXII - SUPERNATURAL AND MYTHICAL BEINGS
CHAPTER XXIII - PROPITIATORY SACRIFICES AND HEALING OFFERINGS
CHAPTER XXIV - FEASTS TO THE "BGHA"
CHAPTER XXV - MOUNT "THAW THI." RELIGIOUS CULTS
CHAPTER XXVI - MAGIC
CHAPTER XXVII - DIVINATIONS
CHAPTER XXVIII - TABU
PART V. DEVELOPMENT OF THE KAREN PEOPLE
CHAPTER XXIX - GROWTH OF CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE KAREN
CHAPTER XXX - THE PROGRESS OF THE KAREN RACE
APPENDIXES
APPENDIX A - GLOSSARY OF KAREN WORDS
APPENDIX B. - BIBLIOGRAPHY
Footnote
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Harry Ignatius Marshall
Published by Good Press, 2022
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In Chapter I, I referred briefly to the relationship of the Karen dialects to the other languages of Burma and noted the bearing of that subject upon the question of the origin of the people. I adopted the grouping suggested in the last Burma Census (that of 1911), where those dialects are described as forming a Sinitic or Karen group of the Siamese-Chinese sub-family of the Tibeto- Chinese languages. This group comprises three principal branches, namely, the Sgaw, the Pwo (including the Taungthu), and the Bwe, which embraces several minor dialects in the Toungoo and Red Karen country. Some of these latter forms of speech have been very little studied. A few books have been published in Bwe, but at present are superseded by publications in the Sgaw, the Sgaw language was reduced to writing by Dr. Jonathan Wade in 1832, the Burmese alphabet being used in denoting most of the sounds, while certain symbols were employed for such letters as had no equivalent in Burmese. In this way a perfect phonetic alphabet was created.
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