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Tibeto-Burmese and Tai-Kadai; cultural assimilations
Topic Started: May 15 2009, 11:43:13 PM (499 Views)
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ren started with this topic as one minor aspect of Thai racial composition. I'll focus on potential (cultural) assimilation patterns.

Lieberman 1978: Ethnic Politics in Eighteenth-Century Burma, p. 457: Kachin > Shan:
- desire: different "ecological" and/or political role
- changes: conversion to Buddhism, adopting Shan dress and speech
- source: Lieberman 1978

See also the topic 'Shan' ethnicities.
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