Status Updates From Sistemi politici birmani. L...

This is definitely the most exciting part of the book. Gumsa and gumlao alternate, and the Kachin gumsa attempt to model themselves after Shan but this has its complications.

I am enjoying Leach. Where do all these rules exist though? I think Leach thinks of them as scientific abstractions but I'm not sure yet.

We're officially past the contextualizing, introductory chapters and now in the meat of the description of social structures. Leach has just described the Hpalang to illustrate some of the dynamics he will analyze further in chapter V.

I am a massive nerd because wow this is freaking good. We're talking about power, we're talking about ritual, what's not to love?