My Long Neck

Name: My Long Neck
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 53 min
Cast: Maja Duboya, Manang Duboya

2014
53m

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Travel guidebooks describe Thailand's "long neck" villages as human zoos. Tourists pay big money to gawk at women with brass rings around their neck and take photographs. Filmed over three y... Read allTravel guidebooks describe Thailand's "long neck" villages as human zoos. Tourists pay big money to gawk at women with brass rings around their neck and take photographs. Filmed over three years, My Long Neck follows the stories of three young Kayan sisters forced to live in the ... Read allTravel guidebooks describe Thailand's "long neck" villages as human zoos. Tourists pay big money to gawk at women with brass rings around their neck and take photographs. Filmed over three years, My Long Neck follows the stories of three young Kayan sisters forced to live in the past and desperate to move into the future.

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The Kayan are a subgroup of the Karenni people, an ethnic minority of Burma (also known as Myanmar) in South-East Asia. The Kayan are made up of various tribes who identify themselves by their forms of dress. The women of the Kayan Lahwi tribe are well known for wearing neck rings: brass coils that are worn around the neck, appearing to lengthen it. The women who wear these coils are known as "Long Necks" or "Giraffe Women" to tourists.