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Description: "...Opium poppy cultivation in Thailand fell from 12,112 hectares in 1961 to 281 hectares in 2015. One outlier exists: Chiang Mai Province’s remote southwestern district, Omkoi. Ninety percent of the district is a national forest reserve where human habitation is illegal. However, an ethnic Karen population has lived there since long before the law that outlawed them was created, unconnected to the state by road, with limited or no access to health, education and other services. Omkoi’s Karen increasingly rely on cash-based markets. Their lack of citizenship precludes them from land tenure that might incentivize them to grow alternative crops, and their statelessness precludes them from services and protections. Nor is the Thai state the singular Leviathan that states are often assumed to be; it is a collection of agencies and networks with divergent interests, of whom one of the most powerful, the Royal Forestry Department, has purposely made Omkoi’s population illegible, and has consistently blocked the attempts of other state actors to complexify Omkoi beyond the simplicity of its forest environment. These factors make the state illegitimate to Omkoi’s Karen just as Omkoi’s Karen are illegitimate to the state, and make the cultivation of short-term, high-yield, high-value, imperishable opium a logical economic choice for poor Karen farmers, especially given the historical lack of law enforcement presence. However, that presence is growing, as Omkoi becomes one of the last areas of Thailand to experience the historical extension of lowland Padi state power into an ungoverned, untallied highland..."
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2018-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2020-05-03
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Description: "... Book contents: the northern Shan, the baby, A child's life, boys and girls, young men and maidens, marriage, old age and funeral ceremonies, the home, characteristics and customs, village life, agriculture, country and jungle, industries, medicine and charms, government, Shan cosmogony and the creation, language and literature, folk-lore..."
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Source/publisher: Kham Koo Website
1910-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2020-01-05
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Size: 25.42 MB
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Description: " Contents included food culture, communication culture, clothing, daily life, learning culture ....."
Source/publisher: Kham Koo Website
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Date of entry/update: 2019-11-09
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Category: Daily life
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Description: "Contents: we all use water, water is a liquid, the water cycle, water to drink, Unsafe water, water in the home, water for industry, water for the farm, water energy, water for enjoyment, water gets dirty, keeping water clean, projects with water, glossary...."
Source/publisher: Kham Koo Website
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Date of entry/update: 2019-10-19
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Category: Daily life
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Description: "World Knowledge was translated from English to Shan about education, women issue and daily life knowledge ....."
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Source/publisher: Kham Koo Website
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Date of entry/update: 2019-10-19
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Category: Daily life
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Description: "A worker carries bunches of bananas on the bank of the Yangon River in Yangon, Myanmar, Sept. 17, 2019. (Xinhua/U Aung)...Photo shows a fishing boat on the Yangon River in Yangon, Myanmar, Sept. 17, 2019. (Xinhua/U Aung)...A woman does exercise during sunset on the bank of the Yangon River in Yangon, Myanmar, Sept. 17, 2019. (Xinhua/U Aung).."
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Source/publisher: "Xinhua" (China)
2019-09-18
Date of entry/update: 2019-10-15
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Topic: Myanmar cosmetic, natural, Organic, thanakha
Topic: Myanmar cosmetic, natural, Organic, thanakha
Description: "Thanakha is a natural-based product obtained from the bark of the Thanakha or Hesperethusa Crenulata tree. Traditionally grown in small farms in Central Myanmar or better known as the dry zone. Not many trees grow in the dry zone, coarse soil without much water and a really really hot climate. The Thanakha tree, however, seems to thrive especially in the driest regions. Thanakha is a distinctive part of Myanmar culture and has been for over almost 2000 years. It is commonly seen applied to the face of women, men and children alike. It’s a very unique product, especially women most Westerners are squeamish about what they apply to their own face. Myanmar people use Thanakha for its standalone sun protection factor and other beautifying effects. However, its true potential can only be achieved by further extracting the bark, roots, and even leaves. There are many varieties of Thanakha trees in Myanmar. However, a species procured from the organic Thanakha farms of Pakkoku. Famously regarded as Shinmataung Thanakha, this species and its fragrant paste have adorned the cheeks many fair maidens throughout the years..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmore" (Myanmar)
2019-09-17
Date of entry/update: 2019-09-17
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Description: "The Burman: His Life and Notions (1882) is a book about the peoples and customs of Burma (now Myanmar). First published under the pseudonym Shway Yoe, the book was written by the Scottish journalist and British Colonial administrator James George Scott. The book caused a sensation when it was first published because it was considered impossible that a Burman could write so well in English - Shway Yoe?s unbiased tone and positive curiosity is also one reason that the author was presumed Burmese by the British. The book is most note worthy in the fact that the author made an extremely detailed and unparallelled description of the Burmese people and their culture, from their pagoda festivals to their lacquer, traditions, religion, dressing, food, and almost any category related." (Wikipedia)
Source/publisher: Shway Yoe (James George Scott)
1882-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-05-27
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Language: English
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Description: "...His most telling insights about Burma, come in the tiniest frames. Although determinedly small in scope, the book takes on layers of themes: expat life, tourist impressions, political commentary and the role of international NGOs...Like other foreign visitors, Delisle is fascinated by the many antiquated and quirky elements of Burmese life: a Morse code key still in use, long ropes with clips hanging from apartment windows for hoisting up packages, reliance on bank ledgers and WWII-era fire trucks. He gets classic nonpolitical laughs from his Thinggyan soaking and the sudden onset of the monsoon...On a last neighborhood walk with his son, Delisle happens on a Ferris wheel of the low-tech Burmese type, being turned by one athletic longyi-clad man. It is a remarkable Buddhist image of the wheel of life and a most human symbol of Burma, so much effort for so little change—around and around it goes..."
Creator/author: Edith Mirante
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 16, No. 12
2008-12-00
Date of entry/update: 2008-12-22
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Language: English
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Description: Myanmar, das frühere Burma, leidet unter der Misswirtschaft der Militärjunta. Die Schätze des Landes - Erdöl, Edelsteine, Fischreichtum, Kohle - können nicht genutzt werden, weil moderne Produktionsmittel fehlen. Korruption beherrscht das Leben. Alltagsleben in Burma, Buddhismus; Daily Life in Burma, Buddhism
Creator/author: Barbara Jakoby
Source/publisher: RP Online
2007-06-24
Date of entry/update: 2007-08-23
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Daily life
Language: German, Deutsch
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Description: "Returning to Burma after a four-year absence, a visitor discovers that change has brought only a deepened sense of estrangement, not optimism, to ordinary Burmese..."
Creator/author: Thalia Isaak
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 9, No. 3
2001-04-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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