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A Grammar of Lisu
This book is the first comprehensive grammar of Lisu, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in southwestern China, northern Burma, northern Thailand and northeastern India by over a million people. It provides a typological overview of Lisu grammar, an outline of the dialectal differences within Lisu and how they developed, and an overview of traditional and modern Lisu literature and culture.
Songs of the Lisu Hills
The story of how the Lisu of southwest China were evangelized one hundred years ago by the China Inland Mission is a familiar one in mission circles. The subsequent history of the Lisu church, however, is much less well known. Songs of the Lisu Hills brings this history up to date, recounting the unlikely story of how the Lisu maintained their faith through twenty-two years of government persecution and illuminating how Lisu Christians transformed the text-based religion brought by the missionaries into a faith centered around an embodied set of Christian practices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, this volume documents the development of Lisu Christianity, both ...
Emerging Sexual Inequality Among the Lisu of Northern Thailand
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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Aspects of Lisu Phonology and Grammar, a Language of Southeast Asia
Lisu is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 900,000 people in the mountainous border area between China, Myanmar, Thailand and India. This description of the language focuses on five Lisu dialects found in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China. Although a fairly large variety of studies on Lisu language and culture have appeared in China, this is the first comprehensive book-length description of the language to have been published in English.
