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Khon Muang: People and Principles of North Thailand (Beautiful & Educational Books on the Peoples of South China)
by Andrew Forbes ; David Henley
Binding: Hardcover, First Edition edition, 262 pages
Publisher: Art Media Resources
List Price: USD $60.00
Weight: 340
Dimension: H: 1.1 x L: 11.6 x W: 8.5 inches
ISBN 10: 1876437030
ISBN 13: 9781876437039
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The Khon Muang, or 'People of the Principalities', inhabit the hills and valleys of Northern Thailand formerly known as Lanna, or the 'Kingdom of a Million Rice Fields.' In times past the people of the north spoke a different language to the central Thais. They dressed differently, women wore their hair long in contrast to the men covered their bodies with intricate tattoos to ward of sickness and injury in the times of war. The Golden Age of the Lanna Kingdom was in the 13th 15th centuries, when Chiang Mai, the region's capital, treated on equal terms with Siam, Burma, Laos, and even distant Sri Lanka. Then came Burmese Conquest, Siamese invasion, and subsequent cultural domination by Bangkok. In recent years, however, amid signs of a general cultural rebirth, the Khon Muang have strated to rediscover their past.

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