Feasting and Social Oscillation
A Working Paper on Religion and Society in Upland Southeast Asia

A. Thomas Kirsch (Author)

9780877270928

Paperback / softback, published 1 January 1973

67 pages
27.9 x 21.6 x 0.3 cm, 0.454 kg

This work argues that anthropologists have observed and recorded religious rites and rituals but have largely ignored the role of religion when constructing an analytical framework. The author contends that religious phenomena are inextricably intertwined with issues of power, politics, and economics among the upland groups (such as the Kachin) of Southeast Asia.