With my recent dose of scatty electricity, not to mention rare and limited opportunities for news of the world, it comes as a bit of a surprise that Thaksin was visiting the new Burmese Capital yesterday. I do hope he picked up one of the “I Love Myanmar” t-shirts I have seen some tourists sporting recently.
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Brown Out
August 3rd, 2006 by Nicholas Farrelly · 1 Comment
Celebrating with the Shan
August 3rd, 2006 by Andrew Walker · 2 Comments
I am currently writing a review of Nancy Eberhardt’s fascinating Imagining the Course of Life: Self-Transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community. Don’t be put off by the rather ponderous title. This is an engaging and entertaining account of ritual in a Shan community in Mae Hong Son province. A wide range of rituals (including the [...]
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