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The Face of Resistance is a timely and succinct reminder that despite international accolades

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this book deserves a place on the bookshelf of all of those interested in Burma

has published extensively on the history of the Tai polities in the Upper Mekong basin

In the Shadow of Angkor reveals the vibrant written cultural that flourishes in Cambodia today

Buddha on Mecca's Verandah, The Wholesale The Face of Resistance isThe 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