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The Wa were largely portrayed by colonial administrators as wild and dirty people owing to their practice of headhunting. However, Chinese documents written prior to the twentieth century rarely mentioned the Wa as headhunters and yet it is this aspect of Wa culture that has been cited more than any
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was formerly also an important custom. The Wa have different kinds of traditional dances. One important dance in their culture is accompanied by the beating of a large hollow wooden drum. This way of dancing, among other Wa dances such as the hair dance and festivals, is being promoted as a tourist
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with an offering of the blood, meat and skin performed at it. Additionally, among the traditional spirit-worshiping Wa—a practice that still exists among the Christian Wa—animals were sacrificed at festivities like weddings and funerary rituals. However, the Wa that were under Buddhist influence
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During the 1990s the areas controlled by the UWSA were involved in heroin production. During the 2000s, the United Wa State Army shifted focus into amphetamine production. Records of official seizures compiled by the United Nations suggest that in 2006 Myanmar was the source of half of Asia's
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in the area. During this conflict the Wa army occupied areas close to the Thai border, ending up with the control of two separate swathes of territory north and south of Kengtung. In 1999 when the Burmese military requested the Wa fighters to return to the northern area the UWSA refused.
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Fiskesjö, Magnus. "The autonomy of naming: Kinship, power and ethnonymy in the Wa lands of the Southeast Asia-China frontiers." In Charles Macdonald & Yangwen Zheng, eds. Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2009, pp 150–74.
1057:. Their proportion to Myanmar's total population is 0.16. Although little is known about the ancient history of the Wa, they are acknowledged by other dominant ethnic groups in Shan State, such as the Tai Yai, to be the original inhabitants of the area. 1911: 2138:တိုင်းခုနစ်တိုင်းကို တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများအဖြစ် လည်းကောင်း၊ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ တိုင်းနှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသများ ရုံးစိုက်ရာ မြို့များကို လည်းကောင်း ပြည်ထောင်စုနယ်မြေတွင် ခရိုင်နှင့်မြို့နယ်များကို လည်းကောင်း သတ်မှတ်ကြေညာ 1083:
has been established. It is set to be administered by the Wa people and its territory is between the gorges of the Mekong and Salween, in the east part of the Shan State, near the border with the Chinese province of Yunnan.
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and the traditional way of dealing with sickness or other problems was to sacrifice a chicken, a pig or a larger animal, depending from the magnitude of the affliction. According to local legend, the practice of cutting a
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The international border that had been defined between Burma and China made that the Wa people were divided between the two countries. The Wa regions in Burma were largely left alone until the 1950s, when remnants of
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resided, the British left the Wa State without administration, its border with China undefined. That situation suited the Wa well, for throughout their history they had consistently preferred being left alone.
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Winnington, Alan. The Slaves of the Cool Mountains: The Ancient Social Conditions and Changes Now in Progress on the Remote South-Western Borders of China. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1959.
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with a centralized command. In return for agreeing to the ban of poppy cultivation and opium production the region experienced a massive influx of international development aid. The
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Kramer, Tom. "The United Wa State Party: Narco-army or ethnic nationalist party?" Washington, DC: East-West Center Washington; Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007.
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Fiskesjö, Magnus. "Slavery as the commodification of people: Wa 'slaves' and their Chinese 'sisters'." Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 59 (Spring 2011), 3–18.
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in Pangkham, which have published a series of primers in order to improve the literacy of the United Wa State Army troops. Also, after 2000 Wa people in social networks such as
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and all the territories of eastern Shan State, as well as large swathes of the adjacent areas of present-day China had belonged to the Wa. In the area of the former
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Fiskesjö, Magnus. "Mining, history, and the anti-state Wa: The politics of autonomy between Burma and China." Journal of Global History 5.2 (June 2010), 241–64.
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The land where the Wa have been traditionally living is divided between Burma and China. The international border cuts the ancestral Wa region roughly in half.
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Fiskesjö, Magnus. "Participant intoxication and self-other dynamics in the Wa context." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 11.2 (June 2010), 111–27.
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Very little is known about the early history of the Wa. What is known is mostly made up of local legends telling that in the distant past the historical
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Kramer, Tom. "From golden triangle to rubber belt?: The future of opium bans in the Kokang and Wa regions." Amsterdam: Transnational Institute, 2009.
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work among the Wa began at the beginning of the 20th century first in the Burmese and later in the Chinese areas of the Wa territory. It was led by
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forming sizable communities. The Wa now form a minority of only about 10% in Kengtung District despite having been the original inhabitants.
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Takano, Hideyuki. "The Shore Beyond Good and Evil: A Report from Inside Burma's Opium Kingdom." Tokyo: Kotan Publishing, 2002. In English.
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In 1989 the Wa authorities expelled the Burma Communist Party and negotiated a cease-fire with the then leader of Burma's military junta
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Interview with Sara Yaw Shu (Joshua) Chin, co-inventor of the Wa alphabet and long-time Wa Baptist Church leader, 27 February 2006
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Fiskesjö, Magnus (15 June 2010). "Mining, history, and the anti-state Wa: the politics of autonomy between Burma and China".
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The prejudice continues in modern times when the Wa, who are economically not that different from other ethnic
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Winnington, Alan. "Kopfjäger" . Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt, 1983. Series: Roman-Zeitung; Heft 398. .
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lyrics of Wa songs use this Myanmar (revised Bible) "official Wa orthography" in its main variations.
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was the norm and there was sexual freedom for both men and women before marriage. The chewing of
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On the Ethnoarchaeology of Fortified Settlements in the Northern part of Mainland Southeast Asia
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are officially considered part of the Wa minority in China and are also known as 'tame Wa'.
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Fiskesjö, Magnus. "Introduction to Wa Studies." Journal of Burma Studies 17.1 (2013), 1-27.
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and north and northeastwards close to the Chinese border, as well as a small area east of
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caught by Wa people in order to crush them with chilies in a mixture similar to the Thai
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religious beliefs centered around ritual blood sacrifices. Villages had a spirit healer
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being completed in 1938. This transcription, known as "Bible orthography" is known as "
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In recent times some Wa communities from Burma have crossed the border and settled in
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officially recognized by China. In China, the Wa live in compact communities in the
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where a buffalo was sacrificed once every year at a special Y-shaped post named
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was created within the northeastern Shan State, with its de facto capital in
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also promotes dance, as well as other cultural and philanthropic activities.
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in southwestern Yunnan. Their population in China is estimated at 400,000.
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A map of Burma showing the Wa Self-Administered Division, coloured brown.
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and a small proportion of the population follows a derivative of either
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RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
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Journal of Burma Studies 17.1 (2013), a special issue on the Wa people
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As stipulated by the 2008 Burmese Constitution, on 20 August 2010 the
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This article is about the ethnic group that lives primarily in the
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the Wa were displaced around 1229 and were later defeated by King
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The Trouser People: a Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire
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A Bibliography of materials in or about Wa language and culture
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Very little has been written about the Wa people except in the
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were the majority in Kengtung state, with other groups such as
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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, February 1, 2007, p. 269
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attraction by the Yunnan tourism authorities in China. The
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was intended as a ritual sacrifice in order to improve the
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of the rice fields. Traditional villages had also shrines
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other in order to emphasize the primitiveness of the Wa.
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Shuangjiang Lahu, Va, Blang and Dai Autonomous County
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and other online media, as well as Wa songwriters in
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Shan speak out against Thailand's support for the Wa
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In Burma, the Wa live mostly in small villages near
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area. For the archaic term for Japanese people, see
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They founded the 584:Language and script 558:monogamous marriage 417:Many of the Wa are 301:[wa̰lùmjóʊ] 79:approx. 1.2 million 58: 3649:Mon Kayin (Sarpyu) 2144:Weekly Eleven News 2005:佤族支系“本人(佤)”的产生及其特征 1898:Ronald D. Renard, 1618:10.1111/nana.12709 1310:2015-09-23 at the 1300:2013-06-27 at the 1219:Winnington, Alan. 1072:was formed by the 1051: 953:Menggong Township 845: 837: 745: 695: 610:Chinese characters 594: 464: 458:, a Wa village in 449: 280: 44: 4337: 4336: 3948:Zahnyet (Zanniat) 3447: 3446: 2616: 2615: 2201:Media related to 1866:Magnus Fiskesjö, 1195:Mitton, Geraldine 735:Post World War II 508:. 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