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Book Review: Aung San Of Burma

Posted on July 3, 2011 by nathanalbright

Aung San of Burma, by Aung San Sun Kyi Well, at least you can say that this book is honest. Aung San Suu Kyi, the famed Novel Prize-winning heroine of Democracy in Burma, wrote this short biography about her father … Continue reading →

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Famous Last Words

Posted on June 20, 2011 by nathanalbright

This morning, before going off on a trip to Mae Rim (note to self: the dollar isn’t holding its value very well against the baht, and Monday is a bad morning to buy bread), I was working on my lecture … Continue reading →

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Wars And Rumors Of Wars

Posted on June 16, 2011 by nathanalbright

Today has been full of a lot of very striking military news on two fronts: the Burmese Civil War of 2011, which is now being waged across several provinces of Burma (including one province that I am supposed to be … Continue reading →

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Free Burma Rangers

Posted on May 30, 2011 by nathanalbright

Today was the first time I’ve had the chance to chat with the Free Burma Rangers who come and bring students to Legacy Institute. Today I had the chance to talk to one of them from the Karen State area … Continue reading →

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What Glorious Things Are Spoken?

Posted on May 14, 2011 by nathanalbright

[Note: This message, and the last [1], were given at Legacy Institute on Sabbath, May 14, 2011, in Chaing Mai, Thailand.] One of the studies in the Bible I have conducted is about a group of people known as the … Continue reading →

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Border Conflicts: On The ASEAN Conference

Posted on May 10, 2011 by nathanalbright

For those readers who are unaware, there has been an ASEAN conference for the last two days for the nations of Southeast Asia (Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei) that has discussed a variety of … Continue reading →

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Lotus Land

Posted on May 8, 2011 by nathanalbright

While I was watching the last part of Confessions of a Shopoholic and awaiting the beginning of the Pacquiano-Mosley fight, I was called up (a bit earlier than I had expected) to the Legacy Farm (about 2km away from the … Continue reading →

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An Exercise In Ethnology

Posted on April 22, 2011 by nathanalbright

Longtime readers of my blog will be well aware of my blog’s interest in questions of ethnicity, which at their basis are studies in identity.  In our nationalistic world we tend to think of “nations” or “peoples” as the fundamental … Continue reading →

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