Asian Geopolitics and EthnographySoutheast Asian Sociopolitical StudiesChina's Ethnic Minorities and Relations

T. Kenderdine

2026.3.31Reviews in Anthropology

DOI: 10.1080/00938157.2026.2648267

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.