Land and Labour in the Karen Hills of Burma: Cosmology and value in the study of agrarian change

Document type:
Seminar video

Date of seminar:
6th January 2021

Location:
Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Seminar speakers:
Dominique Dillabough-Lefebvre (PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the London School of Economics)

Moderator: Daniel Hayward (Mekong Land Research Forum, Chiang Mai University)

Event description:
This seminar looks at how agrarian change, labour and cultivation relate to local religion and cosmology amongst Karen peoples of the Hpapun Hills, straddling the Thai-Burma border. Land is used as a window through which to explore social relationships and processes of social change in an area with a subsistence cultivation driven economy. The seminar also aims to illustrate the value of using a more holistic, ethnographic approach to the study of ‘land’.

Video link:
Full seminar

Link to presentation:
Presentation