Date：June 8 (Mon), 16：00-18：00 Venue：Tonan-tei (Room 201), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University Speaker：Dr. Magnus Fiskesjö (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology,Cornell University) Title：The Wa former headhunters of the China-Burma frontier Abstract： There is a longstanding view of the Wa people of the Burma-China frontier, which juxtaposes the contradictory notions that the Wa were both "primitive" headhunters and opium exporters, at the same time. In this presentation, revisiting Wa history and society, I suggest an alternative understanding which requires dispensing altogether with the notion of primitive headhunting, which I think is a recent, and misleading, idea. I argue that headhunting, is ― like the opium export trade―a recent historical phenomenon contingent [ Read More ]