Oldest Brother's Story: Tales of the Pwo Karen Education and classical dancer

and classical dancer

in sociology from Beijing University

anthropological study challenges the single

the standard history of Thailand for more than twenty years

and vernacular folktales

Oldest Brother's Story: Tales of the Pwo Karen Education and classical dancerPhotographs by Peter Hinton Black and white photographs throughout Will you tell us a story? Like children in every culture, the Karen children of Dong Luang village repeat this refrain, and are treated, in turns, to delightful and awesome tales of giants and witches, tigers and pythons, and orphans and overlords, recounted by their imaginative elders. After a morning of planting a rice field, or during a merry wedding feast, the tales are told, and