hilltribes

Berlinsky's excellent first novel is notable on a number of counts, not only does it provide a wealth of highly readable information about the hilltribes that are spread across the area known as the "Golden Triangle", that overlaps the mountains of four countries (Burma/Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand) but it also provides a study of two other cultural groups that are a mystery to most of us - missionaries and anthropologists!

Fieldwork: Summary and book reviews of Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski. 2007

Meo Vac, Vietnam One spring day each year, the hilltribes that populate the verdant peaks of northern Vietnam don their finest traditional dress and head to a certain hillock for a rite of the season: the Khau Vai love market.

The Match Game Catherine McKinley 2008

The tribes from the Darling are extremely hostile, even to the more peaceably disposed hilltribes near the colony, and several stations have already been abandoned in consequence of the outrages of the aborigines from the Darling and Lachlan.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

None dwelt here but wandering clans of hilltribes and the occasional isolated trapper.

Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

Though the culture of the hilltribes was patterned after primitive ritual magic, the clairvoyance of their priestesses in fart disguised a network of Set-Nav's comlink; thus had the remotest wilds of Keithland been watched continually for intrusion, transmissions sent by means of talisman stones no demon yet thought to examine for technological artifacts.

Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

'Tell me, was it your brat the girl went back to the hilltribes to hide?

Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

Dunmoreland stock was prized by the hilltribes; formal in a headdress of mules 'ears, the chieftain finalized the exchange without spitting on his knife, meaning no vengeance would be exacted if the beasts proved unsound.

Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

The 100 kW power plant, of which powerhouse and penstock are visible in fig. 66, will be supplying electricity to three forestry stations and to a village inhabited by resettled hilltribes.

1. SALLERI-CHIALSA MICRO HYDEL PROJECT, NEPAL 1985

And if they have been captured by these S'tarra, well the hilltribes may consider their keep a fortress, but if they thought to take it with fewer than ten score, it's possible eighty real soldiers can do the task.

Conan The Invincible Jordan, Robert 1982

Ah! There's an expedition against the hilltribes in India, and we're such a peaceful nation, eh?

Beauchamp's Career — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868