My Long Neck
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 years, My Long Neck follows the stories o...
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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.
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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 years, My Long Neck follows the stories o...