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Offers the first English translation of four different versions of the Chronicle of Moeng Lu

Gives an account of Burma's pro-democracy movement and Aung San Suu Kyi's prominent leadership role

Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma's Tyrant provides the first-ever account of Than Shwe's journey from postal clerk to dictator, analyzing his rise through the ranks of the army, his training in psychological warfare, his belief in astrology, his elimination of rivals and his ruthless suppression of dissent.

Intended for modern students, inside or outside the classroom, this book presents an introductory sketch of Pali using both European and South Asian grammatical categories. It presents Pali in the traditional terms of English grammar, derived from the classical tradition, and discusses and reflects upon those categories.

In the green pastures of the Elephant Nature Park, a sanctuary in northern Thailand, traumatized elephants can recover and begin to enjoy life. This book describes the liberation of two street elephants and their journey to the Elephant Nature Park.

This volume commemorates a new exhibition of Burmese artifacts at the Musée Guimet in Paris and showcases the vibrant art and manuscript traditions of Myanmar. The central pieces displayed in the exhibition were three richly illustrated manuscripts called parabaiks. These vivid paintings, which show lively festivals and the pageantry of daily religious and courtly life, are a window into the culture and customs of nineteenth-century Burma. Also in the exhibition were a number of other manuscripts, inscriptions, diagrams, and even an ornate wooden model of a traditional Burmese monastery.The accompanying essays¿translated from the original French exhibition booklet¿explore complexities of the Burmese language, manuscript production, and background of the exhibited items as well as explaining the festivities and other spirited scenes illustrated in the parabaiks.

Jim Wageman is an award-winning former art director and designer at leading illustrated-book publishers and former director of graphic design at New York¿s Museum of Modern Art. William Chapman is interim dean of the School of Architecture, University of Hawai¿i at Manoa.

Harry Aveling is professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics at Monash University.

Silvia Vignato is associate professor in anthropology at Universita di Milano-Bicocca and chief editor of Antropologia. Matteo Carlo Alcano is a postdoctoral fellow at Universita di Milano-Bicocca. The contributors are Matteo Carlo Alcano, Vanina Bout¿Michela Cerimele, Concepcion Lagos, Pietro P. Masina, Giacomo Tabacco, and Silvia Vignato.

Harry Aveling is professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics at Monash University. Keith Foulcher, honorary associate at the University of Sydney, writes on Indonesian literary and cultural history. Brian Russell Roberts is associate professor of English at Brigham Young University.

Hans-Bernd Zollner, of Hamburg University, specializes in the political culture of Myanmar and other Theravada Buddhist countries. Rodion Ebbighausen is a journalist and project manager at Deutsche Welle.

Vanina Bout¿s associate professor of anthropology at the University of Picardie and a member of the Centre Asie du Sud-Est in Paris.

The research presented in this volume analyzes the impact of ethnic change and religious traditions on local, national, and regional identities. Case studies include the Bru population in Laos/Vietnam, hill tribe populations without citizenship in northern Thailand, the Lua also in northern Thailand, the Pakistani community in Penang, the Rohingya in Myanmar, the Leke religious movement in Thailand/Myanmar, political Islam in Indonesia, Sufi Muslims in Thailand, pluralism in Penang, the Preah Vihear dispute between Thailand and Cambodia, and hero cult worship in Lan Na. Historians and social anthropologists variously tackle these issues of identity and integration within the kaleidoscope of ethnicities, religions, languages, and cultures that make up Southeast Asia.

French anthropologist Jacques Dournes lived in Vietnam for 25 years, from 1946 to 1970, studying the culture of the Jarai and other highland ethnic groups. He became a renowned ethnographer and the Jarai people became his lifelong passion.In part 1 of this study, Andrew Hardy explores Dournes's challenging monograph Potao, une théorie de pouvoir chez les Indochinois jorai and his views on the role of the highlanders in ancient Champa. In part 2, Dournes speaks animatedly with the author about the Jarai, his feelings about culture and economics, his understanding of Vietnam's history, and his personal experience of living in the Central Highlands. The French transcript of the interview is presented in the appendix.

Brings together the popular Thai writer's most highly acclaimed novel with three short stories highlighting the plight of the underclass. This is the story of a Thai student studying in Japan who becomes infatuated with an older Thai woman. It reflects post-war Thai society in the vanity of the aristocracy and the pragmatism of the new elite.

Since the 1960s, the hybrid popular music called luk thung has embodied the aspirations, frustrations, and sorrows of ThailandΓÇÖs working class. Global scholarship, however, has been slow in examining this seminal genre. In this pioneering book, ethnomusicologist James Mitchell explores the many facets of luk thung through ethnographic research with singers, songwriters, fans, and other professionals. The groundbreaking final chapter refutes the widespread opinion that luk thung is an apolitical genre by examining its role in recent political turmoil and tracing currents of protest and sociopolitical commentary back to the musicΓÇÖs origins.The book includes links to many songs online so that readers can hear for themselves the music that came to express the triumphs and hardships of everyday working Thais.

Sazigyo are fine, tablet-woven Burmese tapes used to bind the palm-leaf manuscripts of an earlier era. This book elucidates the religious and social context of sazigyo and describes in detail the weaves, texts, designs, and images.

Argues that the hybridity between traditional Buddhist beliefs and elements from other religions is indicative of the health and wealth of Buddhism

Showcases the path-breaking research that a new generation of Thai scholars is conducting on the country's sexual cultures

Thailand is often called the "Land of Smiles", a nickname, which sounds pleasant and mysterious. This is a work on Thai society.

Pridi Banomyong (1900-83) was one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century Thailand. This title contains nineteen selections from Pridi's writings, speeches, and interviews which focus on his personal background and his active political career from 1932 to 1949. It also includes a fresh translation of the "outline economic plan" of 1932.

When British diplomats Captain William Couperus McLeod and Dr David Richardson set out on their missions to the Tai states, their aim was trade and friendship. This travelogue describes their journeys and diplomatic exchanges.

Offers an account of Thailand's diplomatic, military, and economic history between 1938 and 1948.

Cambodia's long-time opposition leader and former finance minister is committed to establishing democracy in his homeland. He is currently in exile in France to avoid a 12-year prison sentence brought on politically motivated charges, and he is banned from contesting the forthcoming elections. This title recounts his early years in Cambodia.

Traces the evolution of the rural, Lao-speaking people of northeastern Thailand, now over a third of the nation's population, from a traditional peasantry into "cosmopolitan" villagers who are actively shaping Thai politics.

A rare and nuanced glimpse into the country and people of Laos as they stand at the crossroads of change

The diffusion of religious thought in Buddhist Asia has been marked by new modes of expression. Sometimes this has meant textual translation, as highlighted in chapters about Chinese and Japanese Buddhist texts or the analysis of manuscripts in northern Thailand. In other cases it has been cultural translation, such as local adaptations of jataka tales, legal concepts developed out of Theravada Buddhist teachings, or localization of art, inscriptions, and other material culture. Additional chapters study other types of engagement: the encounter of East and West in British geographical and anthropological exploration of Burma, and the place of Brahmanism in early Buddhist thought as expressed through the jatakas.Together these contributions recognize that beyond being isolated by sectarian divisions, disparate Buddhist traditions have flourished through their simultaneity.