Mvuh Hpa Mi Hpa / Creating Heaven, Creating Earth

Reading a people's mythology permits a fascinating entry into another culture.To help the reader appreciate the details of the myth, Anthony Walker provides an ethnographic introduction to the Lahu people and their way of life. A social anthropologist, Dr. Walker has spent over thirty years studying Lahu cultural traditions. He lived for four years in a Lahu village in North Thailand and subsequently has made almost annual visits to this and other Lahu villages in Thailand and, since 1990, in China.This is the first time that a major English-language translation of the Lahu myth of creation has been published.