Talk:Kayan (Burma)

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I think this article needs some more citations, because it overturns some popular beliefs about these women and their neck rings. I've always believed that they do lengthen the neck, which seems plausible through stretching of the discs/connective tissue, and I've also heard on numerous occasions that a woman would die if her neck were very elongated and the rings were removed. Of course, I don't have citations either, so I'll defer to the writer since he/she seems knowledgeable on the subject. 208.22.45.148 20:38, 10 August 2007 (UTC)sw

I think that would make changing the rings pretty much impossible. The people I heard that from were feminists, and I suspect they had an agenda. Mad Gouki 22:37, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[This image] shows an x-ray of woman's neck before and after stretching, although I haven't read the full article of [the site I got it from]. Also, further online researching indicates that ring removal doesn't kill them initially but makes it so they have to lay down for life or else risk neck breaking. I lost these website and don't thus can't reflect back how reliable they were. I first read about ring removal deaths in an issue of Ripley's believe it or not. --Is this fact...? 03:15, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I read a book, "From the Land of Green Ghosts", it's a autobiographical novel from the author Pascal Khoo Thwe, who's a Padaung himself. He tells about his grandma who removes her neckrings, she doesn't need to lie down the rest of her life, the women who remove the rings need some rest to adjust the muscles in their necks so they can support the head on their own again. He also says that only women born on certain days are quallified to wear the rings. 85.147.2.51 (talk) 21:23, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A new link?

A French link: http://www.djparadisetour.com/MaeHongSon/fsecret.html --84.171.89.162 (talk) 17:04, 23 February 2008 (UTC)