Between Hills and Plains: Power and Practice in Socio-Religious Dynamics Among Karen. This substantial ethnography of the minority Karen people of the northern borderlands of Thailand is based on field research done between 1987 and 2001. The focus is on power, social and family continuities and the implications of their minority status, and also on the background, nature and sequelae of Christian conversion where this has taken place. With bibliography, black and white photographs and index.