Mrs. Leslie Milne
Mary Lewis Harper Milne known as Mrs. Leslie Milne (1860–1932) was an English anthropologist who traveled extensively and wrote about the ethnic peoples of the
Namkham in Shan State and was based on the many months she spent living in that village. She was also the author of The Home of an Eastern Clan,[2] a book about the life and culture of the Palaung people, and wrote the first,[3] and what is possibly the only English-Palaung
dictionary. Writing about The Shans at Home and her book on Palaung grammar, The New York Times commented "it would be hard to find a more complete and yet readable account of the habits, customs, and religious ideas of a tribe or small nation than the ones she has given of the Palaungs" and called The Home of an Eastern Clan a "mine of information" for
ethnologists.[4]
Published works
- The Shans at Home, London, John Murray (1910).
- An Elementary Palaung Grammar, Oxford, Clarendon Press (1921). Published in 1921, this was the first survey of the grammar of the Tawngpeng, to the Palaungs of North Hsenwi, as well as to the Palaungs of Yunnanto collect material for this book.
- The Home of an Eastern Clan: A Study of the Palaungs of the Shan State, Oxford, Clarendon Press (1924).
- A Dictionary of English-Palaung and Palaung-English, Rangoon (1931).
Family
Mary Milne is the daughter of Carter Milne and the paternal-granddaughter of William Milne.
Notes
- OCLC 58875322
- OCLC 5226811
- ^ Blagdeb, C. O. (1933) "Review of A Dictionary of English-Palaung and Palaung-English" Man 33: p. 23
- ^ de Kay, Charles (18 January 1925). "Polite Customs of the Palaungs". The New York Times. p. 51.
References
- Shorto, H. L. (1973). Three Mon-Khmer Word Families. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol 36 No. 2, pp. 374–81.
- Grierson, George A. (1922). An Elementary Palaung Grammar: Book Review. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol 2 No. 2, pp. 339–40.
- Hodson, T. C. (1912). The Shans at Home: Book Review. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol 12, pp. 27–29.
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