Suku Karen

Karen
(Myanmar)

Seorang wanita Karen dalam busana tradisional
Daerah dengan populasi signifikan
Myanmar	7,000,000
Thailand	1,000,000
AS	70,000+
Australia	11,000+
Kanada	5,000
Swedia	1,500
Negara lainnya	100,000+
Bahasa
Bahasa-bahasa Karen, yang meliputi S'gaw Karen, Pwo Karen, Karenni dan Pa'O
Agama
Buddha Theravada, Kristen, Animisme

Negara bagian Karen di Myanmar

Suku Karen, Kayin, Kariang atau Yang (Per Ploan Poe atau Ploan dalam Poe Karen dan Pwa Ka Nyaw atau Kanyaw dalam Sgaw Karen; (Myanmar) diucapkan [kəjɪ̀ɴ lù mjó]; bahasa Thai: กะเหรี่ยง or ยาง) merujuk kepada sejumlah kelompok etnis pemakai bahasa Tiongkok-Tibet yang utamanya tinggal di Negara Bagian Karen, selatan dan tenggara Myanmar. Karen melingkungi sekitar 7 persen dari jumlah penduduk Burma dengan jumlah sekitar 5 juta orang. Sejumlah besar Karen berpindah ke Thailand, yang kebanyakan mendiami perbatasan Thai–Karen.

Karen sering disamakan dengan Karen Merah (Karenni), yang merupakan salah satu suku Kayah di Negara bagian Kayah, Myanmar. Salah satu subkelompok Karenni, suku Padaung, paling dikenal karena wanita-wanitanya yang mengenakan cincin leher. Suku tersebut mendiami wilayah perbatasan Myanmar dan Thailand.

Referensi

Cetakan

• Marshall, Harry Ignatius (1997) [1922]. The Karen People of Burma. A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology. White Lotus Press. 
• Anderson, Jon Lee (2004) [1992]. Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World. Penguin Books. 
• Delang, Claudio O. (Ed.) (2003). Living at the Edge of Thai Society: The Karen in the Highlands of Northern Thailand. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-32331-4. Pemeliharaan CS1: Teks tambahan: authors list (link)
• Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. 
• Falla, Jonathan (1991). True Love and Bartholomew: Rebels of the Burmese Border. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-39019-4. 
• Forbes, Andrew, and Henley, David, 'Chiang Mai's Hill Peoples' in: Ancient Chiang Mai Volume 3. Chiang Mai, Cognoscenti Books, 2012. ASIN: B006IN1RNW
• Lewis, Paul; Elaine Lewis (1984). Peoples of the Golden Triangle. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd. ISBN 978-0-500-97472-8. 
• Gravers, Mikael (2007). Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. ISBN 978-87-91114-96-0. 
• Matisoff, James A. (1991). "Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Present State and Future Prospects". Annual Review of Anthropology. Annual Reviews Inc. 20 (1): 469–504. doi:10.1146/annurev.an.20.100191.002345. 
• Phan, Zoya (2009). Little Daughter: a Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West. Simon & Schuster. 
• Scott, James C. (2009). The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-15228-9. 
• Silverstein, Josef (1977). Burma: Military Rule and the Politics of Stagnation. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University press. ISBN 0-8014-0911-X. 
• Smith, Martin (1991). Burma - Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity. London and New Jersey: Zed Books. ISBN 0-86232-868-3. ISBN 0-86232-869-1 pbk. 
• Thawngmung, Ardeth Maung (2012). The 'Other' Karen in Myanmar: Ethnic Minorities and the Struggle Without Arms. Lanham, UK: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-6852-3. 

Online

• Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand
• San C. Po, Burma and the Karens (London 1928)
• Adventist World Radio Karen
• "Burma:International Religious Freedom Report 2005". U.S. State Department. 2005-11-08. Diakses tanggal 2006-07-18. 
• "Karen Weblinks". Diakses tanggal 2006-07-18. 
• Kendal, Elizabeth (2006-03-09). "Day of Prayer for Burma". Christian Monitor. Diakses tanggal 2006-07-18. 
• "Description of the Sino-Tibetan Language Family". Diakses tanggal 2006-07-18. 
• "Recent humanitarian efforts serving the Karen people". Diakses tanggal 2010-12-10. 
• Karen Buddhist Dhamma Dhutta Foundation. "The Karen People: culture, faith and history" (PDF). Diakses tanggal 2013-02-12. 

Pranala luar

• the Karen people of Burma
• S'gaw Karen Grammar
• S'gaw Karen Dictionary
• S'gaw Karen Bible Diarsipkan 2020-04-29 di Wayback Machine.
• Karenvoice.net, shares the information of Karen interacting in the world from the past, struggling in Burma in the present and transiting in the world again in the future
• Karens Around the World Unite.
• Karen Human Rights Group, a new website documenting the human rights situation of Karen villagers in rural Burma
• Kawthoolei Diarsipkan 2014-01-10 di Wayback Machine. meaning "a land without evil", is the Karen name of the land of Karen people. An independent and impartial media outlet aimed to provide contemporary information of all kinds — social, cultural, educational and political
• Free Burma Rangers, website of NGO that provides humanitarian assistance to Internally Displaced People
• Index of IRF reports on Burma 2001-5
• Kwekalu literally "Karen Traditional Horn", the only online Karen language news outlet based in Mergui/Tavoy District of Kawthoolei
• Karen Women's Organization Diarsipkan 2007-05-14 di Wayback Machine.
• Karen Audio Bible