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Anthropological Other Or Burmese Brother?
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Melford E. Spiro
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Transaction Publishers

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The studies collected in this volume represent Spiro's contention that despite marked differences, non-Western peoples are "brother," not "other," and that the
Behind The Teak Curtain
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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First published in 2006. Behind the Teak Curtain, the first fieldwork-based study of Burmese rural politics and development, examines the specific circumstances
Sovereignty, State Failure and Human Rights
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Neil Englehart
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-08 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This book argues that the effectiveness of the state apparatus is one of the crucial variables determining human rights conditions, and that state weakness and
The Traffic in Hierarchy
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Ward Keeler
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-30 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Until its recent political thaw, Burma was closed to most foreign researchers, and fieldwork-based research was rare. In The Traffic in Hierarchy, one of the fe
Confucius, Rawls, and the Sense of Justice
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Erin Cline
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

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This work examines the role of a sense of justice in the ethical and political thought of Confucius and John Rawls, and argues that a comparative study can help