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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 ou...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 in...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 ...