Asian Geopolitics and EthnographySoutheast Asian Sociopolitical StudiesChina's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
T. Kenderdine
2026.3.31Reviews in Anthropology
Abstract
Andrew Ong has here constructed an excellent political anthropology of a polity in stasis. Wa is an ethnic Han majority polity in the Shan State borderlands existing within Myanmar’s fractious pseu...
Citation format
KENDERDINE, T. Mountain statehood—the anomalous polity-making of the wa on the China-myanmar borderlands. Reviews in Anthropology, 2026: 1–2.