Emerging Sexual Inequality Among the Lisu of Northern Thailand: The Waning of Dog and Elephant Repute - Klein-Hutheesing
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The Lisu people, whose lives have been recorded in this publication, are predominantly women of a mountain community in northern Thailand. Along with their men, they have been growing poppies for opium for over a century, the sales of which have been sustained their non-authoritarian society and its implied repute ideology. While living with them for several years, the author observed how newly introduced substitute crops involving a change in production and trade relations had upset the previously egalitarian basis of female and male worth, as exemplified in the metaphor of elephant and dog.…mehr

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The Lisu people, whose lives have been recorded in this publication, are predominantly women of a mountain community in northern Thailand. Along with their men, they have been growing poppies for opium for over a century, the sales of which have been sustained their non-authoritarian society and its implied repute ideology. While living with them for several years, the author observed how newly introduced substitute crops involving a change in production and trade relations had upset the previously egalitarian basis of female and male worth, as exemplified in the metaphor of elephant and dog. The modified gender system in which the Lisu female has become an underdog is described against the backdrop of conventional ideas regarding the cosmic forces, the division of labour, bridewealth and marriage.
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Autorenporträt
Otome Klein Hutheesing was trained as a Sociologist at Leiden University, The Netherlands, where she lectured and did research for her dotoral thesis. After 19 years of teaching (as Assistant Professor at City College, New York and Associate Professor at University Sains Malaysia, Penang) she became involved with fieldwork among the Lisu hill people in northern Thailand. The author's previous publications have been mainly in the area of perception of social classes and castes, on women of minority groups, nominal cultures, ritual change, and appraisals of development projects. She is currently involved in the study of hysteria among hill women and the documentation of Lisu songs.