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List of
publications on the karen Organized Alphabetically by Author (search for keywords
by pressing Ctrl-F) Materials in
this list are in English, unless otherwise noted with a " * "
symbol. Abbreviations: ANU = Australian
National University KBC = Karen
Baptist Convention KCHC = Karen
Cultural and Historical Center, Bakersfield, California. LC = The Library
of Congress NMNH - SI =
National Museum of National History - Smithsonian Institution.
Alonzo, Bunker. "Soo Thah:
a tale of the making of the Karen nation." New York, Fleming H. Revell,
1902. 250p. [With
introduction by Henry C. Mabie. The author was a missionary to Northern Karen
State for 30 years.] Amnesty
International. "Burma –
Extrajudicial Execution and Torture of Members of Ethnic Minorities."
London: Amnesty International, 1988. Anderson, J. P. "Some Notes
about the Karens in Siam." Journal of the Siam Society, 17 (2): 51-58,
1923. Aung Hla, Saw. * "The
Karen History." Printed at the Karen Magazine, Bassein, Burma.
Translated by Saw Laurence Po. Chiangmai, Thailand, 1987. [In this book,
the author, interestingly enough, connects historical roots of Karen people
with one of the "lost tribes of Israel."] KCHC Aung Htu. "Karen New
Year." Hpa Pun, 1975. (In Burmese: Ka
Yin Hnit Thit Ku Pwe) LC: DS528.2.K35
A96. Ballard, Emilie.
"Say it in
Karen." Chiang Mai, Thailand: Thailand Baptist Missionary Fellowship,
1993. [For the study
of Karen language--Conversation and phrase book. This work is designed to
meet the need of foreigners who want to learn Karen language--Spoken Karen.] KCHC, LCCN
NUMBER: 93-916527 Beyrer C,
Celentano DD, Suprasert S, et al. "Widely
varying HIV prevalence and risk behaviours among the ethnic minority peoples
of northern Thailand" AIDS Care 9 (4): 427-439 AUG 1997 Blackwell, Rev.
George E. "The
Anglo-Karen Dictionary (Based on the Dictionary Compiled by J. Wade and Mrs.
J. P. Binney)." Rangoon: Baptist Board of Publications, 1954. KCHC Bose, Helge. "The Right
to Union: The Concept of Self-determination and the Karens of Burma." An
Honors Thesis submitted to Georgia State U, 1992. [A copy of this
thesis may be requested by writing to the Dept. of Political Science at
Georgia State University.] KCHC Brown, David. "The State
and Ethnic Politics in South-East Asia." New York and London: Routledge,
1994. [Titled
"The Ethnocratic State and Ethnic Separatism in Burma," chapter 2
in this book discusses about the ongoing Burma’s ethnic political conflicts,
including that of Karen. The author terms Burma as "ethnocratic
state" and perceives current ethnic conflicts in Burma as "clashes between
absolutist and irreconcilable ideologies: the imperative of state nationalism
confronting the imperative of ethnic nationalism."] Brown RL "The Karen
drums of Burma: Types, iconography, manufacture and use", Journal of
Asian Studies 54 (4): 1150-1151 NOV 1995 -- Book review of the book of the
same title by Cooler, R. M. (published also in 1995) Bruce, George. "The Burma
Wars 1824-1886." Hart-Davis, MacGiven: London, 1973. Burma (Union),
Karen Special Enquiry Commission. "Karen
Special Enquiry Commission Report," Rangoon, Superintendent of
Government Printing and Stationary, 1951.
"The
Karens,’ in Burma." ed. Frank N. Tranger, HRAF Subcontractor’s Monograph
No. 37, New Haven (mimeographed), 1956. "A Tour
among the Karens of Siam." Baptist Missionary Magazine, 53: 9-16, 1873. Chaney, Elsie
Northrup. "The Ivory
Cutter." Claremont, California: The Creative Press, 1955. KCHC. Cooler, Richard
M. "The Karen
Bronze Drum of Burma: Types, Iconography, Manufacture, and Use." Leiden,
New York: E. J Brill, 1995. LC: DS503 .S77 Cooler, Richard
M. "The Use of
Karen Drums in the Royal courts and Buddhist Temples of Burma and Thailand: A
Continuing Mon Tradition." Michigan Papers of South and Southeast Asia
No. 25. Ann Arbor: Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of
Michigan, 1986. Cooke, Joseph R.
et al. "Phlong
(Pwo Karen of Hot District, Chiang Mai)." In Phonemes and Orthography:
Language Planning in Ten Minority Languages of Thailand, ed. By William A.
Smalley. Pacific Linguistics Series C, No. 43. Canberra: The Australian
National University, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific
Studies, 1976. Pp. 187-220. Cruickshank,
Charles. "S.O.E
(Special Operation Executive) in the Far East." Oxford U Press: London,
1983. Curen, Pippa. "The
Kawthoolei Women’s Organization." Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 13,
No. 4, 1989. P. 32-34. NMNH-SI and
other university libraries. De Lacouperie,
Terrin. "The
Languages of China before the Chinese." Ch'eng-wen Publishing Co.:
Taipei, Taiwan, 1966. KCHC, LC. Delang, Claudio
O. (Ed) "Suffering
in Silence: The Human Rights Nightmare of the Karen People of Burma",
Parkland: Universal Press, 2000. "Karen
Folklore." Based on stories told to him by Thara Poh, mss is circa,
1936. [Notes:
"Thara" is a Karen term used for respected educator or teacher.]
KCHC. Edward, Norman
Harris. (collected by) "The Rice Fairy
- Karen Stories from S.E Asia." Simplicity Press, 1987. KCHC, LC. Falla, Jonathan "True Love
and Bartholomew: Rebels on the Burmese Border", New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1991. LC: DS528.2.K35
A96. Fraser-lu,
Sylvia. "Frog Drum
and Their Importance in Karen Culture." Arts of Asia, Vol. 13, No. 5,
September-October, 1993, pp. 50-58. [Author explores
the origin and the crucial role of frog drum in Karen culture and history,
despite the fact that Karens themselves did not manufacture frog drum.] LC,
NMNH-SI. "A grammar
of the Sgaw Karen." Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press, F. D.
Phinney, 1898. 51p. Gould, E. b. "Eastern
Karennee and Siamese Claims." Letter to the Marquis of Salisbury, 27
March 1889. London: Foreign Office Archives, F.O. 69/132/4562. Guyot, D. "May We Be
Spared the Misfortune Arising from a Changing of Kings." In Asie du
Sud-Est Continentale: actes du XXIX Congres International des Orientalistes,
Paris. Juillet 1973. P. B. Lafont, ed. Pp. 63-66. Paris: L’Asiatheque, 1976. "Communal
Conflict in the Burma Delta." In Southeast Asian Transitions. R. T.
McVey, ed. pp. 191-234. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978. LC,
NMNH-SI. H. N. C.
Stevenson. "The Hill
Peoples of Burma." Burma Pamphlet #6, Longmans, 1945. KCHC.
Hamilton, James
W. "Pwo Karen:
At the Edge of Mountain and Plain." St. Paul: West Pub. Co., 1976. 354p.
The American Ethnological Society no. 60. LC. "Effects of
Thai Market on Karen Life." Practical Anthropology, 10(5): 209-15. Hamilton, James
W. "Ban Hong:
Social Structure and Economy of a Pwo Karen Village in Northern
Thailand." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1965. (University
Microfilms #66-6614.) "Jungle
Storyteller: the Life of Tha Myaing, the first Adventist Karen Minister in
Burma." Boise, Idaho: Pacific Press Pub. Association, 1985. LC. Hayami, Y. Karen tradition
according to Christ or Buddha: The implications of multiple reinterpretations
for a minority ethnic group in Thailand, Journal of Southeast Asian
Studies 27 (2): 334-& SEP 1996 Abstract: "Wildlife
Trade in Mergui Tavoy District, Kawthoolei in December 1991- April
1993." TRAFFIC Southeast Asia Field Report no. 2, Chiangmai, 1993. "The Pwo
Karen of Northern Thailand: A Preliminary Report." Chaingmai, Thailand:
Tribal Research Center, 1969. "Do the
Karen Really Exist?" In Highlanders of Thailand, ed. J. McKinnon and W.
Bhruksasri. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1983. [Notes: Martin
Smith, a respected journalist and well-known author of several articles and
books on ethnic peoples of Burma, argues that this study of Karen people is
mostly "written from the misleading perspective of neighboring Thailand,
come nowhere near understanding the dynamism and aspirations of modern
nationality movements in Burma."] "The Karen,
Millenialism, and the Politics of Accommodation to Lowland States." In
Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the Frontier with Burma. C. F.
Keyes, ed. Pp. 81-98. Philadelphia, PA: ISHI, 1979. [A study on the
relationship between the remote Karen villages of northern Thailand and the
central Thai authority.] Hovemyr, Anders
P. "In Search
of the Karen King: a Study in Karen Identity with Special Reference to 19th
Century Karen Evangelism in Northern Thailand." Academiae Ubsaliensis,
1989. LC: BV 3270
.H58. Ijima, Shigeru. "Ethnic
Identity and Social Cultural Change among Sgaw Karen in Northern
Thailand," in Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: the Karens on the Thai
Frontier with Burma, ed. by Charles F. Keyes. ISHI: Philadephia, 1979. Jones, Robert
B., Jr. "The Karen
Language; Descriptive and Comparative Studies." University of California
at Berkeley, 1958. (Doctoral Dissertation for a Ph.D in Linguistics). 254p. For copies,
write to the Interlibrary Loan Services, Photoduplication Section, the
General Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. [Part
1 of the thesis is a description of the Moulmein Sgaw variety of Karen (including
its segmental and supra-segmental phonemes; its verbs, nouns, relators,
adverbials, markets and interjections; its verb, noun and adverbial
compounds; and various types of constructions within the language). Part 2
consists of a comparisons of five varieties of Karen (the Moulmein and
Bassein varieties of both Sgaw and Pho Karen, and Taungthu (Pa-O) and
reconstructioon of proto-types. The final part of Jones’ study is an
etymological glossary that contains 837 entries and includes the reconstructed
forms for each level of reconstruction.] Later, this dissertation was revised
and published as below. Jones, Robert
B., Jr. "Karen
Linguistic Studies: Description, Comparison and Texts." University of
California Publications in Linguistics, vol. 25, Berkeley and Los Angeles,
University of California Press. 283p. Jones, Robert
B., Jr. "Laryngeals
and the Development of Tones in Karen." Burma Research Society, Fiftieth
Anniversary Publications Number 1. Pp. 101-106. "The
Question of Karen Linguistic Affiliation." Paper presented at the Eighth
International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Berkeley,
California. Karen National
Union (KNU). "Clarification
Document Concerning the Negotiation between the Karen National Union (KNU)
and the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)." Manerplaw:
Karen National Union, 1996. [Translated
into English by the Research Department of Karen National League (KNL).]
KCHC, also available on Karen Website. Kato, Hiroshi. "Kawthoolei:
a report on the uncharted state of Burma and the documents of the national
movement which seeks independence from Burma; words and photographs by H.
Katoh. 1st ed. Tokyo: Dojidaisha, 1982. 155p. KCHC, LC. Keyes, Charles
F. "Ethnic
Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the Thai Frontier with Burma."
Philadephia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Inc., 1979. [Anyone
interested in ordering this book or for more information may write to
Director of Publications, ISHI, 3401 Science Center, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 19104, U.S.A.] Keyes, Charles
F. "Tribal
Peoples and the Nation-State in Mainland Southeast Asia." In Southeast
Asian Tribal Groups and Ethnic Minorities: Prospects for the Eighties and
Beyond (Cultural Survival Report 22), Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival, Inc.,
1987. Keyes, Charles
F. "The Golden
Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland South East Asia."
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. [The first
chapter of this book deals with the social and cultural adaptation of some
ethnic peoples of Burma including Chin and Karen. The author also attempts to
explain "Karen nationalism" in the context of their transformation
from traditional religion to Buddhism and Christianity, their political
aspiration and traditional culture.] Keyes, Charles
F. "The Karen
in Thai History and the History of the Karen in Thailand." In Ethnic
Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the Frontier with Burma. C. F. Keyes,
ed. Pp. 25-61. Philadelphia, PA: ISHI, 1979. Klein, Harold
Eugene. "Beyond His
Calling: the life of Chester Leroy Klein." Carlton Press, NY, 1983.
241p. [The author
himself was born in Burma from an American missionary couple who worked among
Karen people of Shwegin area in Burma more than twenty years. This book is
the account of his parents as missionaries among Burma’s Karen people.] KCHC Klein, Harold E.
"The Peanut
Brittle House." Los Angeles, 1984. [A pictorial
book which illustrates the history of Christian missionaries and their works
among Karen people in the Shwegin area of Burma.] KCHC Klein, Harold E.
"The Karens
of Burma: Their Search for Freedom and Justice." Unpublished. KCHC Kunstadter,
Peter. "Ethnic
Group, Category, and Identity: Karen in Northern Thailand." In Ethnic
Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the Frontier with Burma. C. F. Keyes,
ed. Pp. 119-164. Philadelphia, PA: ISHI, 1979. Lebar, Frank M.
et al. "Ethnic
Groups of Mainland Southeast Asia." New Haven: Human Relation Area Files
Press, 1964. P.58-62. LC, SI and
several university libraries. [A small section
in this book gives a very good summary of historical and cultural backgrounds
of Karen people.] Lehman, F. K. "Ethnic
Categories in Burma and the Theory of Social Systems. In Southeast Asian
Tribes, Minorities and Nationas. P. Kunstadter, ed. Pp. 93-124. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967. Lehman, F. K. "Kayah
Society as a Function of the Shan-Burma-Karen Context." In Contemporary
Change in Traditioooonal Societies. J. Steward, ed. Pp. 1-104. Burana:
University of Illinois Press, 1967. Lehman, F. K. "Who are
the Karen, and If So, Why? Karen Ethnohistory and a Formal Theory of
Ethnicity." In Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the Frontier
with Burma. C. F. Keyes, ed. Pp. 215-249. Philadelphia, PA: ISHI, 1979. [The author
examines the origin of Karen people by critically analyzing available
ethnolinguistic and historical evidences. He also presents some plausible
applications of academic theory to modern day Karen identity.] Lewis, James
Lee. "Self-supporting
Karen Churches in Burma: A Historical Study of the Development of Karen
Stewardship." Central Baptist Theological Seminary, 1946. (Doctoral
Dissertation for a Th.D). 420p. For copies, write to the Central Baptist
Theological Seminary Library, Seminary Heights, Kansas City, KS 66102. [An
historically-oriented study of the process by which the Karen churches and
schools became self-supporting (i.e., they ceased receiving regular monetary
aid from the mother missionary society in the United States) as a result of
efforts undertaken by the early Karen missionaries and their followers.] The
study also deals with the life of Ko (Saw) Tha Byu and Dr. Adoniram Judson, a
pioneer missionary from American Baptist Mission to Burma during the 1850’s,
60’s and 70’s.] KCHC Lewis, J. L. "The
Burmanization of the Karen People: A Study in Racial Adaptability." M.A.
thesis, University of Chicago, 1924. KCHC. Lisa McQuail. "Treasures
of Two Nations: Thai Royal Gifts to the United States of America." Asian
Cultural History Program, Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC, 1997. [This pictorial
book includes a nice picture of Karen Drum that was presented to the United
States of America by Phra Pin Klao, the Second King during the reign of King
Mongkut (Rama IV) r. 1851-1868, as Harris Treaty Gifts in 1856. Pp. 125] Loo Shwe, Thara
(Saw). "The Karen
People of Thailand and Christianity." Typescript, n.p., Rangoon, 1962. " The Loyal
Karens of Burma." London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1887. 264p. [An introduction
to the Karens who are described as ‘the staunchest and bravest defenders of
the British rule’ with sections on Karen language, literature, customs and
religion. Smeaton (1848-1910) gives extensive quotations in the introductory
chapter (p. 1-65) from the letters of the American medical missionary, Dr.
Vinton, written in 1886 describing the turbulent times following the British
annexation, and with the theme and fear ‘that, after profiting by the
loyalty, devotion, and bravery of the Karens, the Bristish Government will
again forget them…..’] Marlowe, David
H. "In the
Mosaic: The Cognitive and Structural Aspects of Karen-Other
Relationships." In Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the
Frontier with Burma. C. F. Keyes, ed. Pp. 165-214. Philadelphia, PA: ISHI,
1979. Marlowe, David
H. "Upland-Lowland
Relationships: the Case of S’kaw Karen of Central Upland Western Chiang
Mai." In Tribesmen and Peasants in North Thailand, ed. By Peter Hinton.
Chiang Mai: Tribal Research Center, 1969. Pp. 53-68. Marlowe, David
H. "The S’kaw
Karen of Chiang Mai." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco, April, 1970. Mark, T. A. "The Karen
Revolt in Burma." Issues and Studies 14(12): 48-84, 1978. "The Karen
People of the Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology" New York:
AMS Press, 1980. 329p. [One of the most
comprehensive study and analysis of Karen culture, tradition and their way of
life.] KCHC, LC and several other University Libraries. Marshall, Harry
Ignatius. "Karens: an
element in the melting pot of Burma." Southern Workman, 56 (1927):
26-33. Marshall, Harry
Ignatius. "Karen
Bronze Drums." Journal of Burma Research Society 19 (April 1929), pp.
1-14. Marshall, Harry
I. "Naw
Su." Portland, Maine: Falmouth, 1947. 351p. [Although this
is written as a fiction, the author depicts "the clash of cultures and
faiths arising when a Karen girl is converted to Christianity." The
story is set just after the Third Anglo-Burmese War.] LC. Marshall Shwin,
Saw. "Karen Tall
Tales." Educational Resource Center, Thailand. Karen Baptist Cenvention:
Chaingmai, Thailand, 1988. KCHC Mason, Francis. "Synopsis
of a grammar of the Karen language embracing both dialects, Sgau and Pgho, or
Sho." Tavoy, Burma: Karen Mission Press, 1846. 458p. [This seems to
be the most comprehensively published pioneering grammar of Sgaw and Pwo
Karen, which includes indexes of words (p. 301-444), and a sample subject
index on conchology (p. 447-53) with entries in Karen, Burmese and English.
The work reflects Mason’s interests paying particular attention to natural
history terminology. Also given (in a duplicate pagination sequence of p.
299-314) is the Pwo Karen text of a ‘Buddhist romance’ called ‘The
clandestine marriage’ included by Mason as an exercise in the usage of
language rather than as a piece of literature.] Mason, Francis. "The Karen
Apostle, or Memoir of Ko (Saw) Tha Byu, the First Karen Convert, with Notices
Concerning His Nation." Bassein, Burma: Sgaw Karen Press, 1884.
(Originally published in Boston by Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1843.) Mason, Ellen
Huntley bullard. "Civilizing
mountain men: or sketches of mission work among the Karens." London:
James Nisbet, 1862. 384p. [This book
reflects the author’s devotion to her work of "founding self-supporting
girls’ schools for the education of Karens at Toungoo"]. LC McMahon, A. R. "The Karens
of the Golden Chersonese." London: Harison, 1876. Mika Rolly, Saw.
"The
Karenni and Pa-O Revolution in Burma." Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol.
13, No. 4, 1989. P. 15-18. Mirante, Edith. "I am Still
Alive." A report of Human Rights Abuses from 1983-1986. Project Maje, 14
Dartmouth Road, Cranford N.J. 1986. KCHC Mirante, Edith. "Ethnic
Minorities of Burma Frontiers and Their Resistance Groups." In Southeast
Asian Tribal Groups and Ethnic Minorities: Prospects for the Eighties and
Beyond (Cultural Survival Report 22). Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival, Inc.,
1987. Mooler Theh,
Thara Doh "Thara
Mooler Theh: Events in His life." Translated by SawBa Saw Khin, Rangoon:
Karen Baptist Convention of Burma, 1988. [notes: Thra
Doh, in Sqaw Karen, generally means Reverend.] KCHC Moore, A. W. "Burma: the
Question of Karennee." In Political and Secret Memoranda of the India
Office. London: India Office Records, 1/P & s/18/B20, 1879. Omori K and L.
P. GRESKA (1993) "GROWTH AND HEALTH-STATUS OF PRESCHOOL KAREN
HIGHLANDERS" Annals of Human Biology 20 (1): 21-30 Abstract:
Omor. K. and
L.P. Greksa (1996) "Dietary patterns and dietary adequacy of highland
Pwo and Sgaw Karen of northwest Thailand" Ecology of Food and Nutrition
35 (3): 219-235 Abstract: Omori, K. and L.
P. Greksa (2002) "Seasonal variation in the dietary adequacy of highland
Pwo and Sgaw Karen (Thailand)" American Journal of Human Biology 14 (4):
519-531 Abstract: "Notices on
Karen Nee, the Country of Kaya or Red Karens." In India Political and
Foreign Consultations. London: India Office Records, IPF/26/202, No. 102,
1857. (Also published in Journal of the Indian Archipelago, n.s., 4 (1889):
1-25.) Pah Dwai, Saw. "Karen
Citizenship, or True Citizenship." Rangoon: Printed at Prompt Press,
1936. 28p. LC JF801 .P28 Perngparn,
Usaneya, et al. "Impact of
Health Development on child Rearing of the Hilltribes: Karen and
H’mong." Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press, 1992. Peracca, S. "The
importance of gender analysis: The Pwo Karen of Thailand" Population and
Environment 18 (2): 221-222 NOV 1996 Pi Emma, Naw. "The Karen
People." Vol. 1 & 2, Educational Resource Center, Thailand Karen
Baptist Convention, Chaingmai, Thailand, 1988. KCHC Po, San Crombie,
Dr. "Burma and
the Karens." Elliot Stock: London, 1928. 94p. [The author is
one of the earliest Karen to become a medical doctor who was educated in
England. In his book, San C. Po describes simplistic and peace-loving nature
of his people and their relations with ethnic Burman. He advocates separate
self-government of the Karens.] Po Lay Tay * "The
Karen Stories." Published by Karen Baptist Convention for Middle Schools
in Karen State. KCHC Poo Taw Oo
(Thara Bu Mu) * "The
Karen Bronze Drums." Rangoon, 1961. KCHC Rajah, Ananda. "Ethnicity,
Nationalism and Nation-State: The Karen in Burma and Thailand." In Geham
Wijeyewardene (ed.) Ethnic Groups Across National Boundaries in Mainland
Southeast Asia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1990. Rebecca, Naw. "Karen
Education: Children on the Front Line." Cultural Survival Quarterly,
Vol. 13, No. 4, 1989. P. 30-32. [A brief
explanation by a Karen teacher on the appalling situation of Karen children
and Karen education along the war-torn Thai-Burma border.] Renard, Ronald
Duane, et al. "Changes in
the Northern Thai Hills: An Examination of the Impact of Hill Tribe
Development Work, 1957-1987." Chaingmai, Thailand: Research and
Development Center, Payap University, 1988. Renard, Ronald
Duane. "Kariang:
History of Karen-T’ai Relations from the Beginnings to 1923." University
of Hawaii, 1980. (Doctoral Dissertation for a Ph.D in History). [Chapter 1 (pp.
1-29), "Defining the Karens," chapter 2 (pp. 30-65), "Early
History (of the Karens before the Konbaung Wars)," and chapter 3 (pp.
66-118), "Troubles around the Three Pagodas Pass: Karens in Central
Thailand from the Konboung Wars to the eve of Chulalongkorn’s Reforms
1753-1883," deals in part with the Karen in Burma. The remainder of the
thesis deals only the Karen communities in central and northern Thailand,
covering such topics as (a) the economic role of the Karens during the
nineteenth century as suppliers to the Thai of such valuable commodities as
lac, tin, sappan wood, animal skins, horns, and hides, (b) the gradual
impoverishment of the Karens as the Thai economy developed, and (c) King
Chulalongkorn’s efforts to extend to the Karen all the benefits of the
modernized Thai state he was building.] LC Rhode, D. E. "The First
Karen Dictionary." British Museum Quarterly, 20 (1955/1956): 58-59. Roy, Shree
Bhagawan. "Bio-Social
Change Among the Karens of Andaman Island." New Dehli: Inter-India
Publications, 1995. 128 p. [This book gives
detail analysis on the life-style of, and changes in social customs among,
Karen people from Burma who were settled in Andaman and Nicobar Islands by
the British in 1924-25.] LC: DS 432.k2R69 Sato, J. Shwe Wa, Maung. "Burma
Baptist Chronicle." ed. Genevieve Sowards and Erville Sowards. [Judson
Sesquicentennial ed.] Rangoon: Board of Publications, Burma Baptist
convention, 1963. 448p. LC, KBC library (in Rangoon). Smeaton, D. M. "The Royal
Karens of Burma." London: Kegan, Paul and Trench, 1887. KCHC. Smith Dun, Saw. "Memoirs of
the Four-Foot Colonel." Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program, Dept. of
Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1980. Data Paper no. 113. KCHC, LC,
Cornell University and other university libraries. Smith, Martin. "Burma:
Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity." Penguin: London, 1992. [A comprehensive
analysis on modern day ethnic resistance movements in Burma which includes
the revolutionary history of Karen, Kachin, Karenni and other ethnic
nationalities of Burma.] LC, KCHC and other university libraries. Smith, Martin. "Burma and
World War II." Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1989. P.
4-6. Smith, Martin.
(in collaboration with Annie Allsebrook) "Ethnic
groups in Burma : development, democracy and human rights." ed.
Anne-Marie Sharman. London : Anti-Slavery International, 1994. 144 p. [Martin Smith
explains the critical situation of Burma’s ethnic people as the ruling
military regime continues to launch its full-scale offensives against them.
His book reflects massive human rights violations committed by the military
regime against ethnic minorities, along with the suppression of democratic
movement in the country.] Smith, Martin. "A
State of Strive: the Indigenous Peoples of Burma." In Indigenous Peoples
of Asia. Ed. R. H. Barnes, et al. Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian
Studies, Inc., 1995. p. 221-245. Monograph and Occasional Paper Series,
Number 48. [The author critically
examines the emergence and development of ethnic political conflicts in Burma
within complex political and historical backgrounds of the country. The study
includes the investigation of how and why some specific problems arose and
how they are dealt with by the successive Burmese regimes.] LC, KCHC, and
several University Libraries. Solnit, David
Benedict. "A
grammatical sketch of Eastern Kayah (Red Karen)." PhD thesis, University
of California, Berkeley, CA, 1986. (Available from University Microfilm, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, order no. UM 8718164). Soottipong,
Rossarin. "Differentials
in Contraceptive Use among the Karen in Chiang Mai Province, Northern
Thailand." Research School of Social Science, Australian National
University: Canberra, 1991. LC, ANU. Stern, Theodore.
"A People
in Between: The Pwo Karen of Western Thailand." In Ethnic Adaptation and
Identity: The Karen on the Frontier with Burma. C. F. Keyes, ed. Pp. 63-80.
Philadelphia, PA: ISHI, 1979. Stern, Theodore.
"Research
upon Karen in Village and Town, Upper Khwae Noi, Western Thailand. Selected
Findings." Report to the National Research Council of Thailand. Bangkok:
mimeo, 1965. Stern, Theodore.
"Ariya and
the Golden Book: A Millenarian Buddhist Sect among the Karen." Journal
of Asian Studies, 27 (2): 297-328, 1968. Stern, Theodore.
"The Cult
of the Local ‘Lord’ among the Karen." Paper presented at the 67th Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Mimeo. 1968. Stern, Theodore.
"Three Pwo
Karen Scripts: A Study of Alphabet Formation." Anthropological
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