“This is an important book and deserves a local readership
The importance of this volume
students and anyone else interested to better understand the complexity of this tragic conflict
This ethnography of a small community of Thai Buddhists in the Malaysian state of Kelantan draws on rich
His areas of interest include development issues in Southeast Asia
Oldest Brother's Story: Tales of the Pwo Karen Education “This is an important bookPhotographs by Peter Hinton Black and white photographs throughout Will you tell us a story? Like children in every culture, the Karen children of Dong Luang village repeat this refrain, and are treated, in turns, to delightful and awesome tales of giants and witches, tigers and pythons, and orphans and overlords, recounted by their imaginative elders. After a morning of planting a rice field, or during a merry wedding feast, the tales are told, and