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Culture summaryessay 2011 • Nash, Manning
Malays • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a culture summary of Malays. Information is presented on major aspects of Malayan culture....The golden road to modernityBook 1965 • Nash, Manning
Burmans • Asia > Southeast Asia
This monograph focuses on two villages of Upper Burma: Nondwin and Yadaw. It identifies the sources of susceptibility and resistance to social change in a newly developing nation and points out the range of opportunities that appear to the ordinary v...Burmese Buddhism in everyday lifearticle 1963 • Nash, Manning
Burmans • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a study of Buddhist beliefs and practiced in rural villages outside of Mandalay. The author discusses the religious precepts, schooling and festivals. He also discusses how religion influences individual character and social structure....Culture Summaryessay 2012 • Nash, Manning & Adem, Teferi Abate
Burmans • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a culture summary of the people of Burma, now Myanmar. Information is presented on major aspects of the Burmese culture....Interrelations between Buddhism and social systems in Cambodian peasant cultureessay 1966 • Ebihara, May & Nash, Manning
Cambodians • Asia > Southeast Asia
This document discusses relationships between Buddhism and social organization of community life in a Cambodian rural village. It argues that several aspects of village culture in Cambodia is primarily shaped by the teachings and rituals of Theravada...