True Love and Bartholomew

Rebels on the Burmese Border

By: Jonathan Falla, Falla Jonathan

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Paperback | 24 July 2006

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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.

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'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

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Foreword
Acknowledgements
A bronze drum
Boar tusk+s children
White collar flowerland
True love at home
Water child, land child
A simple man
Fighting mean, fighting clean
Great lake and the elephant man
Bartholomew+s borders
The three seasons Interlude: From the Kok River
Last of the longhouses
A delicate bamboo tongue
True love in love
Fermented monkey faeces
Perfect hosts
Old guard, young turks
True love and white rock
Insurgents in a landscape
True love and sudden death
Portraits
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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True Love and Bartholomew

Rebels on the Burmese Border

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Industry Reviews

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