The Money
Trail: Burmese Currencies in Crisis, 1942-1947, by
Marilyn Longmuir
The Money Trail
outlines the rapid succession of currencies used in Burma
in the 1930s and 1940s, recounts the economic effects of the
wartime currency crises, and details the considerations in
the formulation of the British financial policies during and
after the Japanese occupation.
Available 2001.
ISBN 1-891134-05-1. $16.95*
Killing
a Buffalo for the Ancestors: A Zhuang Cosmological Text from
Southwest China, by David Holm
The discovery
and translation of a cosmological text written in one of the
Thai-related Zhuang dialects of Southwest China provides opportunity
to investigate the rituals of buffalo sacrifice, while providing
valuable information on the dialect's phonetic structure,
its writing system, and its relevance for understanding the
development and distribution of the Tai family of languages.
The book also provides information on the history and social
structure of the Zhuang and Bouyei of Guangxi province and
on the interplay of linguistic communities within the province.
Available sometime
in 2002*
*Please
note, the prices of these books do not include shipping and
handling.
