...Gerard R. Moran; Robert E. Knowlton Burmese Law Tales. The Legal Element in Burmese Folk-lore . By Maung Htin Aung . London : Oxford University Press , 1962 . x , 159 . Appendix, Bibliography, $2.90. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 228 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Chie Ikeya Burmese Lives: Ordinary Life Stories under the Burmese Regime . Edited by Wen-Chin Chang and Eric Tagliacozzo . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . 288 pp. ISBN: 9780199335046 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016...

... of the nature of religion in contemporary Japan.” This statement from a decade and a half ago is as applicable to religious behavior and belief in a modern Buddhist country like Burma as it originally was to pre-war Japan. There is a good deal of literature which purports to be descriptive of Burmese religion...

...Cecil Hobbs Folk Elements in Burmese Buddhism . By Maung Htin Aung . London : Oxford University Press , 1962 . xii , 140 . Bibliography. $2.90. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 497 major defects, and even specialists interested...

... the collection of comparable data for description and analysis in the areas of social structure and economics. The original plan was modified in the field during an exchange of visits to the Burmese and Thai peasant communities eventually selected for study. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Manning Nash Burma Through Alien Eyes: Missionary Views of the Burmese in the Nineteenth Century . By Helen G. Tracer . New York : Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers , 1966 . xvi, 239 pp. Bibliography, Index. $6.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 336...

...John F. Cady A Chronicle of the Burmese Theater: The Great Po Sein . By Kenneth Sein (Maung Khe) and J. A. Withey . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1965 . xiv, 170 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography. $4.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967...

...M. B. Emeneau The Burmese Writing System . By Robert B. Jones Jr. , and U Khin . Washington, D. C. : American Council of Learned Societies , 1953 . Program in Oriental Languages. Publications Series B—Aids—No. 1. v, 37. $1.00 (paper). A Grammar of Pashto . By Herbert Penzl...

...John F. Cady Buddhist Backgrounds of the Burmese Revolution . By E. Sarkisyanz , with a Preface by Dr. Paul Mus . The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff , 1965 . xxiv, 248 . Index, Postscript, Texts, Localities. 28.50 guilders. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966...

...Frank M. LeBar Burmese Monk's Tales . Collected, Translated and Introduced. By Maung Htin Aung . New York and London : Columbia University Press , 1966 . x, 181 , Appendices, Bibliography. $5.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 127...

...Eleanor Lattimore Labor problems in Southeast Asia . By Virginia Thompson . Published under the auspices of the International Secretariat of the Institute of Pacific Relations. New Haven : Yale University Press , 1947 . xvii, 283 p. $4.00. Burmese economic life . By J. Russell...

...James F. Guyot The Stricken Peacock: Anglo-Burmese Relations, 1752–1948 . By Maung Htin Aung . The Hague : Martinus Nijhof , 1965 . xii, 135 , Appendices, Bibliography, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 544 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES 1961...

...B. R. Pearn Abstract The prominence given to the British operations in Arakan during 1942–43 serves to remind us that the India-Buima coastal plain from Chitta-gong to Akyab and south to Ramree and Cheduba Islands was the scene of a difficult campaign during the First Anglo-Burmese War in 1824–25...

...Cecil Hobbs We the Burmese: Voices from Burma . Edited by Helen G. Tracer . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1969 . xix, 297 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Index. $6.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 986 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES pany, 1970. Hull...

...). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 List of References Allott Anna. 1994 . The End of the First Anglo-Burmese War: The Burmese Chronicle Account of How the 1826 Treaty of Yandabo was Negotiated . Bangkok : Chulalongkorn University Press . Anderson John. 1871...

...E. Paul Durrenberger The Burmese Connection: Illegal Drugs and the Making of the Golden Triangle . By Ronald D. Renard . Boulder, Colo. : Lynn Rienner , 1996 . xix, 148 pp. $38.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 1078 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Philip Kitley Burmese Crafts: Past and Present . By Sylvia Fraser-Lu . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xiv, 371 pp. $150. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 623 as well as "a plethora of opportunities...

...Robert S. Wicks Earth to Heaven: The Royal Animal-shaped Weights of the Burmese Empires . By Donald and Joan Gear . Twinstar : 1992 . xvii, 299 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 626 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES for choosing the three villages...

...Cecil Hobbs Burmese Supernaturalism . By Melford E. Spiro . Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, Inc. , 1967 . x , 300 pp. Index. $7.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS lowed by annual fascicles. The dates in the title are somewhat...

... (Chicago: Aldine Transaction, 1961). 2. Partha Chatterjee, The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004). Public Camp Orders and the Power of Microstructures in the Thai-Burmese Borderland . By Annett...