Akha: Archive

Akha

January 2012

1 post

Akha women sing [or chant] field songs as they travel to and from their fields. There are not traditional words to the songs, they are made up and vary each time. Usually the songs reflect on the difficulty of life, or memories of the past. The constant in the songs is the sound and tone. In this video, we hear an Akha woman from Chiang Rai, Thailand who is chanting a passage from a Bible verse at...

December 2011

1 post

September 2011

4 posts

August 2011

0 posts

July 2011

2 posts

To help make our life a little easier, we are combining the Akha tumblog with the new Akha posterous : http://akha.posterous.com Please bear with us as we make these changes.

September 2010

2 posts

August 2010

1 post

June 2010

1 post

The water belongs to the fish, the sky belongs to the birds and the mountains belong to the Akha. Get to know about the Akha people of Northern Thailand. The 2 million Akha living in southeast Asia live simple lives in remote villages. Valuing family and their history, the Akha can recite their genealogy up to 70 generations. Akha culture and festivals center around rice, rice and the Akha are...

March 2010

2 posts

February 2010

19 posts

Here is an interesting piece by Michael Sullivan...

Learn to Read and Write Akha →

From the Akha site - Zanyiza.com (all language is in Akha or Thai - videos are available for the Akha orthography)

January 2010

16 posts

February 2009

1 post