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Textiles of the Highland Peoples of Burma Volume 1 by Michael C.
 Vol. 1 - The Naga, Chin, Jingpho, and other Baric-speaking Groups Volume 1 of Textiles of the Highland Peoples of Burma focuses on the speakers of Tibeto-Burman languages that are classified as Baric. These include numerous groups of Naga and Chin as well as the Mru, Jingpho, Kado, Riang, and Meithei. The majority of these people live in the western highlands of Burma as well as in neighboring areas of Bangladesh and India. The present work provides background on these peoples and a comprehensive survey of their textiles which includes a great deal of new information. In addition to dozens of black and white photographs and several maps, there are 96 plates with 264 color photographs. |
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Over the Misty Mountain by Karl Gustav Izikowitz
A Journey from Tonkin to the Lamet in Laos Over the Misty Mountain, A Journey from Tonkin to the Lamet in Laos was first published in 1944 in Swedish and never before translated into English. Unfortunately, it has therefore remained an unknown work in most scholarly circles. This book preceded Izikowitz classic ethnographic work on the Lamet, a Mon-Khmer speaking people in Laos. Izikowitz, a keen observer, traveled in the late 1930's and studied the various tribal groups on his way to the Lamet and back. He recorded their customs, belief systems, ceremonies, relationships as well as their agriculture, partly based on slash and burn cultivation. This more general work is rich in details, for example on the French administrative system in those remote areas. The work is enriched by 138 period photographs. |
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The Home of an Eastern Clan by Leslie Milne
A Study of the Palaungs of the Shan States The Home of an Eastern Clan is a detailed study on all aspects of life and culture of the Palaungs of the Shan States. This study, which was researched in the 1910's and published in 1924, deals for most part with the Katur tribe of the Palaungs. They live in or near Namhsan, the capital of Tawngpeng, which was nominally a Shan State but which was governed by a Palaung chief then, and inhabited almost entirely by Palaungs. The Palaungs are a mon-Khmer speaking group (as are the Lamet of Laos). |
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The Long Patrol by Mike Tucker
With the Karen Guerrillas in Burma A First-Hand Report from the Karen State, Behind Burmese Army Lines Ten years after he first visited Karen refugee camps and villages in Northern Thailand, Mike Tucker returned to the region to repay an unspoken debt. Having been greatly affected by the warmth and determined spirit of the Karen people during his original journey a decade earlier, his objective in The Long Patrol was to observe the current conditions of the Karen National Liberation Army, and to report on the endless savagery inflicted on the Karen by the Burmese military dictatorship. |
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Among Insurgents by Shelby Tucker
A Journey into Burma's Hidden Colonies Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma describes a remarkable and perilous journey into a terra incognita. Shelby Tucker entered the Shan State of Burma through a border area of China closed to foreigners, crossed the Kachin Hills and left Burma via an area of India closed to foreigners. He was detained by communist rebels, handed over to Kachin rebels and arrested by the Indian Army. |
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Tiger Men by Barry Petersen
A young Australian among the Rhade Montagnard of Vietnam Tiger Men. Twenty-five years after he left Vietnam and his Montagnard tribesmen, Australian Barry Petersen wrote this thoughtful story of his life among the Rhade and other ethnic groups of Darlac province in the Vietnam highlands. He went there to train and lead the local people to defend their villages and homes against the Viet-Cong. This is the story of the Truong Son, 'Tiger Men', who became the most respected and feared self-defence force in Vietnam. But it is also the sad story of their subsequent defeat and the destruction of the Montagnard villages, culture and way of life--as much due to the Vietnamese and American generals and politicians as to the Vietcong. This is a book which the CIA would rather not see in print. |
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Land of Jade by Bertil Lintner
A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China A classic on recent Burmese history. Bertil and Hseng Noung Lintner spent one and a half years travelling through northern and eastern Burma in 1985-1987 describing with care and deep insight the struggle by the Kachin and Shan ethnic groups against Burmese army rule, and recording the decline and fall of the CPB - the Communist Party of Burma. During their 2,275 kilometre trek, at times in great danger, they wrote the history of a 40-year forgotten war, a history which would otherwise never be committed to paper in such rich detail. Their daughter Hseng Tai was born in Nagaland in India at the inception of the journey. The 1995 edition is updated, and contains a wealth of new photographic material as well as detailed maps and plans. |
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Tragedy in Paradise by Charles Weldon
A Country Doctor at War in Laos A true story of warfare, adventure and humanitarian assistance. "One of the wounded was the soldier whom the Pathet Lao had shot and knifed open. This man was hit by six bullets. One grazed his head; two went through the left arm; one hit his left flank; and two went through his left thigh, shattering the bone. two loops of intestine were protruding from a long, gaping wound in his abdomen. To my amazement, he was still conscious and responsive to questioning." "We irrigated the intestines with saline solution and cleansed them as well as we could. After stuffing the protruding bowel back into the abdominal cavity, we strapped the wound closed with tape, and applied a dressing. With his other wounds bandaged, a traction splint on the shattered leg, and IV fluids containing massive doses of antibiotics going into his veins, he asked for a cigarette!" |
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The Ravens by Christopher Robbins
Officially the war in Laos did not exist. Both North Vietnam and the USA denied they had troops there. In fact, thousands of North Vietnamese were invading the country and pouring down the Ho Chi Minh Trail on their way to the South, and the Americans were fighting a vigorous war against them from the air, and on the ground via the CIA-led Meo (Hmong) tribesmen. The Ravens were the American pilots, all volunteers, who flew through heavy groundfire to identify targets and call in air-strikes. Their mission was top secret. They wore no uniform and carried no identification. Mavericks to a man, they accepted the murderous casualty rates in return for a life of unrestricted flying and fighting. They did their job with extraordinary skill and crazy courage, and with a zany humor all of their own. This is their story ... |
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The White Umbrella by Patricia Elliot
A dazzling true tale of modern Burma told through the life story of Sao Hearn Hkam who had been Princess of Hsenwi, Mahadevi of Yawnghwe, former First Lady of Burma, Member of Parliament, Founder of the Shan State Army, and refugee. From quiet Shan hills to the presidential Palace in Rangoon, to the halls of power in Asia and Europe and finally to the violent, drug-laden netherworld. Her journey is a tale full of princes and princesses, heroes and traitors; opium warlords and freedom fighters. Unspoken are the undercurrents that lift the story from fairy-tale to hard reality. The White Umbrella is in effect a revelation about centuries-old traditions and ethnic conflict bound up in Cold War ideologies and the lure of the Golden Triangle. |
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