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True Love and Bartholomew: Rebels on the Burmese Border | 
 enlarge | Author: Jonathan Falla
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2447790
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 424
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0521390192
Dewey Decimal Number: 959.100495
EAN: 9780521390194
ASIN: 0521390192
Publication Date: March 29, 1991
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Product Description
The Karen, one of Burma's many minority peoples, have been waging an increasingly desperate war for autonomy against the Burmese government since 1949. Karen society in Burma has been little studied since the 1920s, and recent writers have been forced (by Burma's "closed door" policies) to concentrate on Karen refugee communities in Thailand. This book is a portrait of an ancient culture remolded to the purposes of ethnic rebellion. The picture is enriched with historical comparisons and is based on portraits of individual Karen as they struggle to defend their way of life and to preserve their belief in their own independence. There are chapters on music, food, love, the patterns of the rebels' forest and river life, on the Karen military hierarchy and its weaponry, on women and on mercenaries, on the language and the symbols of rebel nationalism. Jonathan Falla has led a diverse life. He attended the University of Cambridge and is the founder of the Cambridge Poetry Society. He has worked in Indonesia and Uganda and has written several plays, being named one of Britain's Most Promising Playwrights in 1983. Falla spent an illegal year in Burma living with the Karen rebels. Currently, he lives in Scotland and works as a nurse.
Book Description
The Karen, one of Burma's many minority peoples, have been waging an increasingly desperate war for autonomy against the Burmese government since 1949. Jonathan Falla, a nurse and prizewinning playwright, spent an illegal year in Burma with the Karen rebels.
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remarkable insight into an asian rebel movement March 3, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
There are plenty of books that describe the politics of rebellion in Asia, but none other that I know of that takes you inside the experience of being a rebel as an ordinary person. Falla's achievement is to take quite everyday events such as meals and show how every aspect of the lives of the Karen has been moulded and influenced by forty years of insurgency. Also, the grander rituals - weddings, funerals, national days - come to life. The details are colourful and bizarre: for example, meeting camouflage-dressed soldiers in bamboo huts in the rainforest who put their feet up on the back porch and sing propaganda lyrics to John Denver tunes. The book is both personally moving and very thought-provoking, and strongly recommended to anyone with an interest in Asian politics and/or anthropology.
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