{"product_id":"true-love-and-bartholomew-rebels-on-the-burmese-border-hardback-9780521390194","title":"True Love and Bartholomew; Rebels on the Burmese Border (Hardback) 9780521390194","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTrue Love and Bartholomew\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRebels on the Burmese Border\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is a portrait of an ancient culture remoulded to the purposes of ethnic rebellion.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJonathan Falla (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521390194, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 March 1991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e426 pages, 20 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 2.4 x 15.6 cm, 0.77 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Jonathan Falla offers us the human face of political change in contemporary Burma, a behind-the-lines view of the Karen Free State. There is all the erudition that we find in more formal texts but none of the pretension. What we are finally offered is a fresh and sharp view that is anthropological in the truest sense. It conveys to us the 'feel' of another way of life.' Nigel Barley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eJonathan Falla, a nurse and prizewinning playwright, spent an illegal year living with the Karen rebels. His richly illustrated account of life in the Burmese jungle creates an evocative portrait of a people fighting to preserve their way of life. The Karen, one of Burma's many minority peoples, have been waging an increasingly desperate war for autonomy against the Burmese government since 1949. Burma's 'closed door' policies have prevented any close study of Karen society since the 1920s and more recent writers have been forced to concentrate on Karen refugee communities in Thailand. Discussing all aspects of Karen life, this is no ordinary anthropological study but a highly personalized account. Based on the lives of individual Karen there are chapters on music, food, love, the patterns of forest and river life, on women, language, weaponry and mercenaries, and on the symbols of rebel nationalism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword Nigel Barley\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. A bronze drum\u003cbr\u003e 2. Boar tusk's children\u003cbr\u003e 3. White collar flowerland\u003cbr\u003e 4. True love at home\u003cbr\u003e 5.  Water child, land child\u003cbr\u003e 6. A simple man\u003cbr\u003e 7. Fighting mean, fighting clean\u003cbr\u003e 8. Great lake and the elephant man\u003cbr\u003e 9. Bartholomew's borders\u003cbr\u003e 10. The three seasons\u003cbr\u003e Interlude: from the Kok River\u003cbr\u003e 11. Last of the longhouses\u003cbr\u003e 12. A delicate bamboo tongue\u003cbr\u003e 13. True love in love\u003cbr\u003e 14. Fermented monkey faeces\u003cbr\u003e 15. Perfect hosts\u003cbr\u003e 16. Old guard, young turks\u003cbr\u003e 17. True love and white rock\u003cbr\u003e 18. Insurgents in a landscape\u003cbr\u003e 19. True love and sudden death\u003cbr\u003e 20. Portraits\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007214932248,"sku":"9780521390194","price":77.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521390194_ab80545d-96da-447a-86a2-48b7a53cb0e5.gif?v=1691376247","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/true-love-and-bartholomew-rebels-on-the-burmese-border-hardback-9780521390194","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}