Featured
Books
Living at the Edge of Thai Society: The Karen in the Highlands of Northern
Thailand
by Claudio O. Delang, 2003 (Routledge)
Between
Hills and Plains: Power and Practice in Socio-Religious Dynamics among
Karen
by Yoko Hayami, 2004 (Kyoto University Press)
A Land without
Evil: Stopping the Genocide of Burma's Karen People
by Benedict Rogers, 2004 (Monarch Books)
The Long Patrol With the Karen Guerrillas in Burma
by Mike Tucker, 2003 (Asia Books)
Redefining
Nature: Karen Ecological Knowledge and the Challenge to the Modern Conservation
Paradigm
by Pinkaew Laungaramsri, 2002 (Earthworm Books)
Suffering
in Silence: The Human Rights Nightmare of the Karen People of Burma
by Claudio O. Delang, 2000 (Universal Press)
Oldest
Brother's Story: Tales of the Pwo Karen
by Elizabeth Hinton, Peter Hinton (Photographer), 2000 (Silkworm Books)
The
Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology
by Harry I. Marshall, 1997 (White Lotus) reprinted from 1922 edition
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on the Karen in Burma, the Karen in Thailand, and elsewhere.
Who are the Karen?
The Karen are the largest of the ethnic minority groups living in the
mountain ranges of eastern Burma and northwestern Thailand. There are
over six million Karen in Burma, and over 400,000 in Thailand, most
of whom are divided into two subgroups - the Skaw (or Pgaganyaw)
and the Pwo (or Plong). Karen-speaking people are
spread over a large area, mainly on the Burma frontier with Thailand.
Everywhere the Karen live interspersed among various other ethnic categories,
so that we find pockets of exclusive Karen villages among for instance
Mon, Shan and Lawa. Only within the Union of Burma we find large areas
where the majority of the population are Karen, i.e. in the Kawthuley
and Kay ah states. >>
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Karen
Literary Prize
New Literary Prize for short novels, stories, essays,
poetry, fiction and non-fiction, personal accounts, diaries, etc., written
by Karen in English, original for the subject, treatment or use of the
language. The deadline for submitting publications is 15 November.
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