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...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 Burma...

...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...

...Ni Ni Khet Burmese Silver from the Colonial Period . By Alexandra Green . London : Paul Holberton , 2022 . 296 pp. ISBN: 9781912168279 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Burmese Silver from the Colonial Period is a catalog of late nineteenth- and early twentieth...

...Emily L. Hue As a whole, Saltsman's interdisciplinary exploration of gendered relationalities in humanitarian NGO work at the Thai-Burmese border serves as a helpful model for other scholars who hope to bridge the presumed divide between the practical and theoretical within humanitarian praxis...

.... Stanford University Press is to be congratulated for publishing it, and the author for his perseverance and deep understanding of his subject. ALBERT S. BACDAYAN University of Kentucky Burmese Politics: The Dilemma of National Unity. By JOSEF SILVERSTEIN. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1980...

...Robert H. Taylor The Burmese Polity, 1752–1819: Politics, Administration, and Social Organization in the Early Kon-baung Period . By William J. Koenig . Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, No. 34. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan, Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies...

...Josef Silverstein Burmese Nationalist Movements, 1940–48 . By U Maung Maung . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1990 . xvii, 395 pp. $39.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 743 (for example, small size...

...Susanne Prager Aung San and the Struggle for Burmese Independence . By Angelene Naw . Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books , 2001 . xvi , 284 pp. $17.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 711 Why, then, did Johnson choose...

.... In her recent study of social order and power relations in refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border, sociologist Annett Bochmann draws from existing scholarship on the political theory and sociology of camp structures and her ethnographic fieldwork to show how camps are lived in practice. By reading...

...David K. Wyatt Conference under the Tamarind Tree: Three Essays in Burmese History . By Paul J. Bennett . New Haven : Yale University Southeast Asia Studies , 1971 . Monograph Series No. 15. vii, 153 pp. Maps, Appendices, Bibliography. $5.75 (paperback). Distributed by The Cellar Book...

...James A. Matisoff Burmese and Jingpho: A Study of Tonal Linguistic Processes . By La Raw Maran . Urbana : Center for Asian Studies , The University of Illinois, 1971 . Occasional Papers of the Wolfenden Society on Tibeto-Burman Linguistics, Vol. IV. ix, 210 pp. Bibliography, n.p.l...

...Michael Aung Thwin Abstract Throughout Burmese history people donated money, land, and labor to the sangha in the hope of acquiring merit and ensuring rebirth in a better existence. Each dynasty was confronted with the flow of wealth from state properties and taxable public holdings to tax-free...

...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...

...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...

...John K. Musgrave Catalogue of Burmese Printed Books in the India Office Library . Compiled by Kenneth Whitbread . London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office , 1969 . xi, 231 , Index of Persons, Subject Index, $18.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK...

...Victor B. Lieberman Abstract This article examines the recent assertion by a scholar of Burmese history that extensive landholding by the Buddhist monkhood helped to undermine every dynasty between the ninth and nineteenth century. It argues that religious wealth, possibly before the fifteenth...

...Victor B. Lieberman Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 VOL. XL, No. 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1981 Communications to the Editor A Note on Burmese Religious Landholdings (Previous material on this topic was included inJAS 38, 4; 39, 4; and 40, 1. At the request...

...E. Thadeus Flood Tai-Biruma Gendai Seiji-shi Kenkyū (Studies in Modern Thai-Burmese Political History) . By Yano Tōru . Southeast Asia Research Series No. 2. Kyoto : The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University , 1968 . xxvii, 579 pp. Reference Notes, Tables, Charts, Maps...

...F. K. Lehman Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 Pronominal Reference in Thai, Burmese, and Vietnamese . By Joseph R. Cooke . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1968 . xiii, 162 pp. Bibliography, n.p. BOOK REVIEWS 733 fills this role in the area...

...Robert B. Jones An Introduction to the Burmese Writing System . By D. Haigh Roop . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1972 . xiv , 122 pp. Appendices. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS p. 208: Afghanistan, a publication...