Buddha on Mecca's Verandah, The Wholesale With the dream of getting

With the dream of getting every elephant off the street

Northup and Stuart-Fox are to Laos what Stanley and Livingston were to Africa

She also wrote the original TV script

he rewrote the book in Thai and published it in 1946

Aung San became Burma’s chief negotiator for independence from Britain

Buddha on Mecca's Verandah, The Wholesale With the dream of gettingThe Buddha on Mecca's Verandah examines the many ways in which people living along an international border negotiate their ethnic, cultural, and political identities. This ethnography of a small community of Thai Buddhists in the Malaysian state of Kelantan draws on rich, original vignettes to show how issues of territoriality, identity, and power frame the experiences of borderland residents. Although the Thai represent less than 10 percent of the