Ambiguity of Identity: The Mieu in North Vietnam Burma/Myanmar The play powerfully dramatizes the

The play powerfully dramatizes the worldwide explosion of AIDS and Dr

though Burmese women historically enjoyed relatively high social status and economic influence

The failure to fully integrate the lower classes into the democratic system

PETER KUNSTADTER has been working in northern Thailand since 1963 on a number of ethnographic

Bilateral relations with Vietnam and Thailand

Ambiguity of Identity: The Mieu in North Vietnam Burma/Myanmar The play powerfully dramatizes theHow have the Na Mieu (Mieu people) of North Vietnam adapted to a world in which other peoplesthe Ty and the Kinhare dominant, and how has the modern state increasingly reshaped the conditions in which they live? This book examines the pressures on the Mieu as they adjust to this non Mieu world, by considering the relations between the Mieu and the Ty, the Kinh, and the central state. It identifies the extent of the Mieus adaptation in light of the