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Burmah and the Burmese: in two books

Burmah and the Burmese: in two books

R. H. MacKenzie, Kenneth

Paperback

AnthropologyChinese HistoryFrance

ISBN10: 9353800064
ISBN13: 9789353800062
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before postcards and policy papers, there was the witness. Listen to Burma speak, unfiltered. Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie records 19th century Burma with the alert eye of a traveller and the disciplined curiosity of Victorian ethnology and anthropology. He writes at the hinge of empire, attentive to language, belief, trade, and the frictions of rule. A rare window onto daily life. Burmah and the Burmese: in two books gathers his observations into a two volume collection that traces Burmese culture and customs as they were lived, debated, and remembered. As a nineteenth century travel narrative and Victorian exploration nonfiction, it reads with immediacy while offering the patient detail readers expect from classic travel literature reprint. Written in the age of British colonial Burma, this work stands as a vivid document of Burma social and political history: how authority was performed, how communities organised themselves, and how outsiders tried to describe a complex society. For anyone building a Southeast Asia history reference shelf, it remains a primary source for scholars as well as an absorbing companion for general readers drawn to travel writing that notices people as much as scenery. Collectors of 19th-century nonfiction will value its place in the broader ethnography of Myanmar peoples and the record it preserves of encounter, bias, and curiosity. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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