Organized by Author
A..
Alonzo, Bunker.
"Soo Thah: a tale of the making of the Karen nation." New York, Fleming
H. Revell, 1902. 250p.
[With introduction by Henry C. Mabie. The author was a missionary to
Northern Karen State for 30 years.]
Amnesty International.
"Burma – Extrajudicial Execution and Torture of Members of Ethnic
Minorities." London: Amnesty International, 1988.
Anderson, J. P.
"Some Notes about the Karens in Siam." Journal of the Siam Society, 17
(2): 51-58, 1923.
Aung Hla, Saw.
* "The Karen History." Printed at the Karen Magazine, Bassein, Burma.
Translated by Saw Laurence Po. Chiangmai, Thailand, 1987.
[In this book, the author, interestingly enough, connects historical
roots of Karen people with one of the "lost tribes of Israel."] KCHC
Aung Htu.
"Karen New Year." Hpa Pun, 1975.
(In Burmese: Ka Yin Hnit Thit Ku Pwe)
LC: DS528.2.K35 A96.
B..
Ballard, Emilie.
"Say it in Karen." Chiang Mai, Thailand: Thailand Baptist Missionary
Fellowship, 1993.
[For the study of Karen language--Conversation and phrase book. This
work is designed to meet the need of foreigners who want to learn Karen
language--Spoken Karen.]
KCHC, LCCN NUMBER: 93-916527
Blackwell, Rev. George E.
"The Anglo-Karen Dictionary (Based on the Dictionary Compiled by J.
Wade and Mrs. J. P. Binney)." Rangoon: Baptist Board of Publications,
1954. KCHC
Bose, Helge.
"The Right to Union: The Concept of Self-determination and the Karens
of Burma." An Honors Thesis submitted to Georgia State U, 1992.
[A copy of this thesis may be requested by writing to the Dept. of
Political Science at Georgia State University.] KCHC
Brown, David.
"The State and Ethnic Politics in South-East Asia." New York and
London: Routledge, 1994.
[Titled "The Ethnocratic State and Ethnic Separatism in Burma," chapter
2 in this book discusses about the ongoing Burma’s ethnic political
conflicts, including that of Karen. The author terms Burma as
"ethnocratic state" and perceives current ethnic conflicts in Burma as
"clashes between absolutist and irreconcilable ideologies: the
imperative of state nationalism confronting the imperative of ethnic
nationalism."]
Bruce, George.
"The Burma Wars 1824-1886." Hart-Davis, MacGiven: London, 1973.
Burma (Union), Karen Special Enquiry Commission.
"Karen Special Enquiry Commission Report," Rangoon, Superintendent of
Government Printing and Stationary, 1951.
C..
Cady, John F.
"The Karens,’ in Burma." ed. Frank N. Tranger, HRAF Subcontractor’s
Monograph No. 37, New Haven (mimeographed), 1956.
Carpenter, C. H.
"A Tour among the Karens of Siam." Baptist Missionary Magazine, 53: 916, 1873.
Chaney, Elsie Northrup.
"The Ivory Cutter." Claremont, California: The Creative Press, 1955.
KCHC.
Cooler, Richard M.
"The Karen Bronze Drum of Burma: Types, Iconography, Manufacture, and
Use." Leiden, New York: E. J Brill, 1995.
LC: DS503 .S77
Cooler, Richard M.
"The Use of Karen Drums in the Royal courts and Buddhist Temples of
Burma and Thailand: A Continuing Mon Tradition." Michigan Papers of
South and Southeast Asia No. 25. Ann Arbor: Center for South and
Southeast Asia Studies, University of Michigan, 1986.
Cooke, Joseph R. et al.
"Phlong (Pwo Karen of Hot District, Chiang Mai)." In Phonemes and
Orthography: Language Planning in Ten Minority Languages of Thailand,
ed. By William A. Smalley. Pacific Linguistics Series C, No. 43.
Canberra: The Australian National University, Department of
Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1976. Pp. 187-220.
Cruickshank, Charles.
"S.O.E (Special Operation Executive) in the Far East." Oxford U Press:
London, 1983.
Curen, Pippa.
"The Kawthoolei Women’s Organization." Cultural Survival Quarterly,
Vol. 13, No. 4, 1989. P. 32-34.
NMNH-SI and other university libraries.
D..
De Lacouperie, Terrin.
"The Languages of China before the Chinese." Ch'eng-wen Publishing Co.:
Taipei, Taiwan, 1966. KCHC, LC.
E..
Edward, Norman Harris.
"Karen Folklore." Based on stories told to him by Thara Poh, mss is
circa, 1936.
[Notes: "Thara" is a Karen term used for respected educator or
teacher.] KCHC.
Edward, Norman Harris. (collected by)
"The Rice Fairy - Karen Stories from S.E Asia." Simplicity Press, 1987.
KCHC, LC.
F..
Falla, Jonathan.
"True Love and Bartholomew: Rebels on the Burmese Border." New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1991.
LC: DS528.2.K35 A96.
Fraser-lu, Sylvia.
"Frog Drum and Their Importance in Karen Culture." Arts of Asia, Vol.
13, No. 5, September-October, 1993, pp. 50-58.
[Author explores the origin and the crucial role of frog drum in Karen
culture and history, despite the fact that Karens themselves did not
manufacture frog drum.] LC, NMNH-SI.
G..
Gilmore, David.
"A grammar of the Sgaw Karen." Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press,
F. D. Phinney, 1898. 51p.
Gould, E. b.
"Eastern Karennee and Siamese Claims." Letter to the Marquis of
Salisbury, 27 March 1889. London: Foreign Office Archives, F.O.
69/132/4562.
Guyot, D.
"May We Be Spared the Misfortune Arising from a Changing of Kings." In
Asie du Sud-Est Continentale: actes du XXIX Congres International des
Orientalistes, Paris. Juillet 1973. P. B. Lafont, ed. Pp. 63-66. Paris:
L’Asiatheque, 1976.
Guyot, D.
"Communal Conflict in the Burma Delta." In Southeast Asian Transitions.
R. T. McVey, ed. pp. 191-234. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
1978. LC, NMNH-SI.
H..
H. N. C. Stevenson.
"The Hill Peoples of Burma." Burma Pamphlet #6, Longmans, 1945.
KCHC.
Hamilton, James W.
"Pwo Karen: At the Edge of Mountain and Plain." St. Paul: West Pub.
Co., 1976. 354p. The American Ethnological Society no. 60.
LC.
Hamilton, James W.
"Effects of Thai Market on Karen Life." Practical Anthropology, 10(5):
209-15.
Hamilton, James W.
"Ban Hong: Social Structure and Economy of a Pwo Karen Village in
Northern Thailand." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1965.
(University Microfilms #66-6614.)
Hare, Eric B.
"Jungle Storyteller: the Life of Tha Myaing, the first Adventist Karen
Minister in Burma." Boise, Idaho: Pacific Press Pub. Association, 1985.
LC.
Hill, Glen.
"Wildlife Trade in Mergui Tavoy District, Kawthoolei in December 1991April 1993." TRAFFIC Southeast Asia Field Report no. 2, Chiangmai,
1993.
Hinton, Peter.
"The Pwo Karen of Northern Thailand: A Preliminary Report." Chaingmai,
Thailand: Tribal Research Center, 1969.
Hinton, Peter.
"Do the Karen Really Exist?" In Highlanders of Thailand, ed. J.
McKinnon and W. Bhruksasri. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press,
1983.
[Notes: Martin Smith, a respected journalist and well-known author of
several articles and books on ethnic peoples of Burma, argues that this
study of Karen people is mostly "written from the misleading
perspective of neighboring Thailand, come nowhere near understanding
the dynamism and aspirations of modern nationality movements in
Burma."]
Hinton, Peter.
"The Karen, Millenialism, and the Politics of Accommodation to Lowland
States." In Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the Frontier
with Burma. C. F. Keyes, ed. Pp. 81-98. Philadelphia, PA: ISHI, 1979.
[A study on the relationship between the remote Karen villages of
northern Thailand and the central Thai authority.]
Hovemyr, Anders P.
"In Search of the Karen King: a Study in Karen Identity with Special
Reference to 19th Century Karen Evangelism in Northern Thailand."
Academiae Ubsaliensis, 1989.
LC: BV 3270 .H58.
I..
Ijima, Shigeru.
"Ethnic Identity and Social Cultural Change among Sgaw Karen in
Northern Thailand," in Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: the Karens on
the Thai Frontier with Burma, ed. by Charles F. Keyes. ISHI:
Philadephia, 1979.
J
Jones, Robert B., Jr.
"The Karen Language; Descriptive and Comparative Studies." University
of California at Berkeley, 1958. (Doctoral Dissertation for a Ph.D in
Linguistics). 254p.
For copies, write to the Interlibrary Loan Services, Photoduplication
Section, the General Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA
94720.
[Part 1 of the thesis is a description of the Moulmein Sgaw variety of
Karen (including its segmental and supra-segmental phonemes; its verbs,
nouns, relators, adverbials, markets and interjections; its verb, noun
and adverbial compounds; and various types of constructions within the
language). Part 2 consists of a comparisons of five varieties of Karen
(the Moulmein and Bassein varieties of both Sgaw and Pho Karen, and
Taungthu (Pa-O) and reconstructioon of proto-types. The final part of
Jones’ study is an etymological glossary that contains 837 entries and
includes the reconstructed forms for each level of reconstruction.]
Later, this dissertation was revised and published as below.
Jones, Robert B., Jr.
"Karen Linguistic Studies: Description, Comparison and Texts."
University of California Publications in Linguistics, vol. 25, Berkeley
and Los Angeles, University of California Press. 283p.
Jones, Robert B., Jr.
"Laryngeals and the Development of Tones in Karen." Burma Research
Society, Fiftieth Anniversary Publications Number 1. Pp. 101-106.
Jones, Robert B., Jr.
"The Question of Karen Linguistic Affiliation." Paper presented at the
Eighth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and
Linguistics, Berkeley, California.
K
Karen National Union (KNU).
"Clarification Document Concerning the Negotiation between the Karen
National Union (KNU) and the State Law and Order Restoration Council
(SLORC)." Manerplaw: Karen National Union, 1996.
[Translated into English by the Research Department of Karen National
League (KNL).] KCHC, also available on Karen Website.
Kato, Hiroshi.
"Kawthoolei: a report on the uncharted state of Burma and the documents
of the national movement which seeks independence from Burma; words and
photographs by H. Katoh. 1st ed. Tokyo: Dojidaisha, 1982. 155p.
KCHC, LC.
Keyes, Charles F.
"Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the Thai Frontier with
Burma." Philadephia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Inc.,
1979.
[Anyone interested in ordering this book or for more information may
write to Director of Publications, ISHI, 3401 Science Center,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, U.S.A.]
Keyes, Charles F.
"Tribal Peoples and the Nation-State in Mainland Southeast Asia." In
Southeast Asian Tribal Groups and Ethnic Minorities: Prospects for the
Eighties and Beyond (Cultural Survival Report 22), Cambridge, MA:
Cultural Survival, Inc., 1987.
Keyes, Charles F.
"The Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland South East
Asia." Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995.
[The first chapter of this book deals with the social and cultural
adaptation of some ethnic peoples of Burma including Chin and Karen.
The author also attempts to explain "Karen nationalism" in the context
of their transformation from traditional religion to Buddhism and
Christianity, their political aspiration and traditional culture.]
Keyes, Charles F.
"The Karen in Thai History and the History of the Karen in Thailand."
In Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the Frontier with
Burma. C. F. Keyes, ed. Pp. 25-61. Philadelphia, PA: ISHI, 1979.
Klein, Harold Eugene.
"Beyond His Calling: the life of Chester Leroy Klein." Carlton Press,
NY, 1983. 241p.
[The author himself was born in Burma from an American missionary
couple who worked among Karen people of Shwegin area in Burma more than
twenty years. This book is the account of his parents as missionaries
among Burma’s Karen people.] KCHC
Klein, Harold E.
"The Peanut Brittle House." Los Angeles, 1984.
[A pictorial book which illustrates the history of Christian
missionaries and their works among Karen people in the Shwegin area of
Burma.] KCHC
Klein, Harold E.
"The Karens of Burma: Their Search for Freedom and Justice."
Unpublished. KCHC
Kunstadter, Peter.
"Ethnic Group, Category, and Identity: Karen in Northern Thailand." In
Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the Frontier with Burma.
C. F. Keyes, ed. Pp. 119-164. Philadelphia, PA: ISHI, 1979.
L..
Lebar, Frank M. et al.
"Ethnic Groups of Mainland Southeast Asia." New Haven: Human Relation
Area Files Press, 1964. P.58-62.
LC, SI and several university libraries.
[A small section in this book gives a very good summary of historical
and cultural backgrounds of Karen people.]
Lehman, F. K.
"Ethnic Categories in Burma and the Theory of Social Systems. In
Southeast Asian Tribes, Minorities and Nationas. P. Kunstadter, ed. Pp.
93-124. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967.
Lehman, F. K.
"Kayah Society as a Function of the Shan-Burma-Karen Context." In
Contemporary Change in Traditioooonal Societies. J. Steward, ed. Pp. 1104. Burana: University of Illinois Press, 1967.
Lehman, F. K.
"Who are the Karen, and If So, Why? Karen Ethnohistory and a Formal
Theory of Ethnicity." In Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on
the Frontier with Burma. C. F. Keyes, ed. Pp. 215-249. Philadelphia,
PA: ISHI, 1979.
[The author examines the origin of Karen people by critically analyzing
available ethnolinguistic and historical evidences. He also presents
some plausible applications of academic theory to modern day Karen
identity.]
Lewis, James Lee.
"Self-supporting Karen Churches in Burma: A Historical Study of the
Development of Karen Stewardship." Central Baptist Theological
Seminary, 1946. (Doctoral Dissertation for a Th.D). 420p. For copies,
write to the Central Baptist Theological Seminary Library, Seminary
Heights, Kansas City, KS 66102.
[An historically-oriented study of the process by which the Karen
churches and schools became self-supporting (i.e., they ceased
receiving regular monetary aid from the mother missionary society in
the United States) as a result of efforts undertaken by the early Karen
missionaries and their followers.] The study also deals with the life
of Ko (Saw) Tha Byu and Dr. Adoniram Judson, a pioneer missionary from
American Baptist Mission to Burma during the 1850’s, 60’s and 70’s.]
KCHC
Lewis, J. L.
"The Burmanization of the Karen People: A Study in Racial
Adaptability." M.A. thesis, University of Chicago, 1924.
KCHC.
Lisa McQuail.
"Treasures of Two Nations: Thai Royal Gifts to the United States of
America." Asian Cultural History Program, Smithsonian Institution:
Washington, DC, 1997.
[This pictorial book includes a nice picture of Karen Drum that was
presented to the United States of America by Phra Pin Klao, the Second
King during the reign of King Mongkut (Rama IV) r. 1851-1868, as Harris
Treaty Gifts in 1856. Pp. 125]
Loo Shwe, Thara (Saw).
"The Karen People of Thailand and Christianity." Typescript, n.p.,
Rangoon, 1962.
M..
Mackenzie, Donald Smeaton.
" The Loyal Karens of Burma." London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1887.
264p.
[An introduction to the Karens who are described as ‘the staunchest and
bravest defenders of the British rule’ with sections on Karen language,
literature, customs and religion. Smeaton (1848-1910) gives extensive
quotations in the introductory chapter (p. 1-65) from the letters of
the American medical missionary, Dr. Vinton, written in 1886 describing
the turbulent times following the British annexation, and with the
theme and fear ‘that, after profiting by the loyalty, devotion, and
bravery of the Karens, the Bristish Government will again forget
them…..’]
Marlowe, David H.
"In the Mosaic: The Cognitive and Structural Aspects of Karen-Other
Relationships." In Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the
Frontier with Burma. C. F. Keyes, ed. Pp. 165-214. Philadelphia, PA:
ISHI, 1979.
Marlowe, David H.
"Upland-Lowland Relationships: the Case of S’kaw Karen of Central
Upland Western Chiang Mai." In Tribesmen and Peasants in North
Thailand, ed. By Peter Hinton. Chiang Mai: Tribal Research Center,
1969. Pp. 53-68.
Marlowe, David H.
"The S’kaw Karen of Chiang Mai." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco, April, 1970.
Mark, T. A.
"The Karen Revolt in Burma." Issues and Studies 14(12): 48-84, 1978.
Marshall, Harry Ignatius.
"The Karen People of Burma: a Study in Anthropology and Ethnology." New
York: AMS Press, 1980. 329p.
[One of the most comprehensive study and analysis of Karen culture,
tradition and their way of life.] KCHC, LC and several other University
Libraries.
Marshall, Harry I.
"Karens: an element in the melting pot of Burma." Southern Workman, 56
(1927): 26-33.
Marshall, Harry I.
"Karen Bronze Drums." Journal of Burma Research Society 19 (April
1929), pp. 1-14.
Marshall, Harry I.
"Naw Su." Portland, Maine: Falmouth, 1947. 351p.
[Although this is written as a fiction, the author depicts "the clash
of cultures and faiths arising when a Karen girl is converted to
Christianity." The story is set just after the Third Anglo-Burmese
War.] LC.
Marshall Shwin, Saw.
"Karen Tall Tales." Educational Resource Center, Thailand. Karen
Baptist Cenvention: Chaingmai, Thailand, 1988.
KCHC
Mason, Francis.
"Synopsis of a grammar of the Karen language embracing both dialects,
Sgau and Pgho, or Sho." Tavoy, Burma: Karen Mission Press, 1846. 458p.
[This seems to be the most comprehensively published pioneering grammar
of Sgaw and Pwo Karen, which includes indexes of words (p. 301-444),
and a sample subject index on conchology (p. 447-53) with entries in
Karen, Burmese and English. The work reflects Mason’s interests paying
particular attention to natural history terminology. Also given (in a
duplicate pagination sequence of p. 299-314) is the Pwo Karen text of a
‘Buddhist romance’ called ‘The clandestine marriage’ included by Mason
as an exercise in the usage of language rather than as a piece of
literature.]
Mason, Francis.
"The Karen Apostle, or Memoir of Ko (Saw) Tha Byu, the First Karen
Convert, with Notices Concerning His Nation." Bassein, Burma: Sgaw
Karen Press, 1884. (Originally published in Boston by Gould, Kendall,
and Lincoln, 1843.)
Mason, Ellen Huntley bullard.
"Civilizing mountain men: or sketches of mission work among the
Karens." London: James Nisbet, 1862. 384p.
[This book reflects the author’s devotion to her work of "founding
self-supporting girls’ schools for the education of Karens at
Toungoo"]. LC
McMahon, A. R.
"The Karens of the Golden Chersonese." London: Harison, 1876.
Mika Rolly, Saw.
"The Karenni and Pa-O Revolution in Burma." Cultural Survival
Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1989. P. 15-18.
Mirante, Edith.
"I am Still Alive." A report of Human Rights Abuses from 1983-1986.
Project Maje, 14 Dartmouth Road, Cranford N.J. 1986.
KCHC
Mirante, Edith.
"Ethnic Minorities of Burma Frontiers and Their Resistance Groups." In
Southeast Asian Tribal Groups and Ethnic Minorities: Prospects for the
Eighties and Beyond (Cultural Survival Report 22). Cambridge, MA:
Cultural Survival, Inc., 1987.
Mooler Theh, Thara Doh
"Thara Mooler Theh: Events in His life." Translated by SawBa Saw Khin,
Rangoon: Karen Baptist Convention of Burma, 1988.
[notes: Thra Doh, in Sqaw Karen, generally means Reverend.] KCHC
Moore, A. W.
"Burma: the Question of Karennee." In Political and Secret Memoranda of
the India Office. London: India Office Records, 1/P & s/18/B20, 1879.
O..
O’Riley, F. G. S.
"Notices on Karen Nee, the Country of Kaya or Red Karens." In India
Political and Foreign Consultations. London: India Office Records,
IPF/26/202, No. 102, 1857. (Also published in Journal of the Indian
Archipelago, n.s., 4 (1889): 1-25.)
P..
Pah Dwai, Saw.
"Karen Citizenship, or True Citizenship." Rangoon: Printed at Prompt
Press, 1936. 28p.
LC JF801 .P28
Perngparn, Usaneya, et al.
"Impact of Health Development on child Rearing of the Hilltribes: Karen
and H’mong." Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press, 1992.
Pi Emma, Naw.
"The Karen People." Vol. 1 & 2, Educational Resource Center, Thailand
Karen Baptist Convention, Chaingmai, Thailand, 1988.
KCHC
Po, San Crombie, Dr.
"Burma and the Karens." Elliot Stock: London, 1928. 94p.
[The author is one of the earliest Karen to become a medical doctor who
was educated in England. In his book, San C. Po describes simplistic
and peace-loving nature of his people and their relations with ethnic
Burman. He advocates separate self-government of the Karens.]
Po Lay Tay
* "The Karen Stories." Published by Karen Baptist Convention for Middle
Schools in Karen State.
KCHC
Poo Taw Oo (Thara Bu Mu)
* "The Karen Bronze Drums." Rangoon, 1961.
KCHC
R..
Rajah, Ananda.
"Ethnicity, Nationalism and Nation-State: The Karen in Burma and
Thailand." In Geham Wijeyewardene (ed.) Ethnic Groups Across National
Boundaries in Mainland Southeast Asia, Singapore: Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies, 1990.
Rebecca, Naw.
"Karen Education: Children on the Front Line." Cultural Survival
Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1989. P. 30-32.
[A brief explanation by a Karen teacher on the appalling situation of
Karen children and Karen education along the war-torn Thai-Burma
border.]
Renard, Ronald Duane, et al.
"Changes in the Northern Thai Hills: An Examination of the Impact of
Hill Tribe Development Work, 1957-1987." Chaingmai, Thailand: Research
and Development Center, Payap University, 1988.
Renard, Ronald Duane.
"Kariang: History of Karen-T’ai Relations from the Beginnings to 1923."
University of Hawaii, 1980. (Doctoral Dissertation for a Ph.D in
History).
[Chapter 1 (pp. 1-29), "Defining the Karens," chapter 2 (pp. 30-65),
"Early History (of the Karens before the Konbaung Wars)," and chapter 3
(pp. 66-118), "Troubles around the Three Pagodas Pass: Karens in
Central Thailand from the Konboung Wars to the eve of Chulalongkorn’s
Reforms 1753-1883," deals in part with the Karen in Burma. The
remainder of the thesis deals only the Karen communities in central and
northern Thailand, covering such topics as (a) the economic role of the
Karens during the nineteenth century as suppliers to the Thai of such
valuable commodities as lac, tin, sappan wood, animal skins, horns, and
hides, (b) the gradual impoverishment of the Karens as the Thai economy
developed, and (c) King Chulalongkorn’s efforts to extend to the Karen
all the benefits of the modernized Thai state he was building.] LC
Rhode, D. E.
"The First Karen Dictionary." British Museum Quarterly, 20 (1955/1956):
58-59.
Roy, Shree Bhagawan.
"Bio-Social Change Among the Karens of Andaman Island." New Dehli:
Inter-India Publications, 1995. 128 p.
[This book gives detail analysis on the life-style of, and changes in
social customs among, Karen people from Burma who were settled in
Andaman and Nicobar Islands by the British in 1924-25.] LC: DS
432.k2R69
S..
Shwe Wa, Maung.
"Burma Baptist Chronicle." ed. Genevieve Sowards and Erville Sowards.
[Judson Sesquicentennial ed.] Rangoon: Board of Publications, Burma
Baptist convention, 1963. 448p. LC, KBC library (in Rangoon).
Smeaton, D. M.
"The Royal Karens of Burma." London: Kegan, Paul and Trench, 1887.
KCHC.
Smith Dun, Saw.
"Memoirs of the Four-Foot Colonel." Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia
Program, Dept. of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1980. Data Paper
no. 113.
KCHC, LC, Cornell University and other university libraries.
Smith, Martin.
"Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity." Penguin: London,
1992.
[A comprehensive analysis on modern day ethnic resistance movements in
Burma which includes the revolutionary history of Karen, Kachin,
Karenni and other ethnic nationalities of Burma.] LC, KCHC and other
university libraries.
Smith, Martin.
"Burma and World War II." Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4,
1989. P. 4-6.
Smith, Martin. (in collaboration with Annie Allsebrook)
"Ethnic groups in Burma : development, democracy and human rights." ed.
Anne-Marie Sharman. London : Anti-Slavery International, 1994. 144 p.
[Martin Smith explains the critical situation of Burma’s ethnic people
as the ruling military regime continues to launch its full-scale
offensives against them. His book reflects massive human rights
violations committed by the military regime against ethnic minorities,
along with the suppression of democratic movement in the country.]
Smith, Martin.
"A State of Strive: the Indigenous Peoples of Burma." In Indigenous
Peoples of Asia. Ed. R. H. Barnes, et al. Ann Arbor, MI: Association
for Asian Studies, Inc., 1995. p. 221-245. Monograph and Occasional
Paper Series, Number 48.
[The author critically examines the emergence and development of ethnic
political conflicts in Burma within complex political and historical
backgrounds of the country. The study includes the investigation of how
and why some specific problems arose and how they are dealt with by the
successive Burmese regimes.]
LC, KCHC, and several University Libraries.
Solnit, David Benedict.
"A grammatical sketch of Eastern Kayah (Red Karen)." PhD thesis,
University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1986. (Available from
University Microfilm, Ann Arbor, Michigan, order no. UM 8718164).
Soottipong, Rossarin.
"Differentials in Contraceptive Use among the Karen in Chiang Mai
Province, Northern Thailand." Research School of Social Science,
Australian National University: Canberra, 1991.
LC, ANU.
Stern, Theodore.
"A People in Between: The Pwo Karen of Western Thailand." In Ethnic
Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the Frontier with Burma. C. F.
Keyes, ed. Pp. 63-80. Philadelphia, PA: ISHI, 1979.
Stern, Theodore.
"Research upon Karen in Village and Town, Upper Khwae Noi, Western
Thailand. Selected Findings." Report to the National Research Council
of Thailand. Bangkok: mimeo, 1965.
Stern, Theodore.
"Ariya and the Golden Book: A Millenarian Buddhist Sect among the
Karen." Journal of Asian Studies, 27 (2): 297-328, 1968.
Stern, Theodore.
"The Cult of the Local ‘Lord’ among the Karen." Paper presented at the
67th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Mimeo.
1968.
Stern, Theodore.
"Three Pwo Karen Scripts: A Study of Alphabet Formation."
Anthropological Linguistics, 10 (1): 1-39, 1968.
T..
Tadaw, Saw Hanson.
"The Karens of Burma: A Study in Human Geography." In Studies in Human
Ecology, ed. by George A. Theodorson. Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson
and Co. Pp. 496-506.
Tarling, Nicholas
"An Empire Gem" British Wartime Planning for Post War Burma 1943-44.
Journal of S. E. Asian Studies, Vol. 13, #2, September 1982.
Taylor, R. H.
"Perceptions of Ethnicity in the Politics of Burma." Southeast Asian
Journal of Social Science 10, no. 1: 7-12.
Tho Wah, Saw
* "The Life of Mahn Saw Bu." Rangoon, 1962.
KCHC.
[This book tells us about the life of one of the most prominent Karen
who reportedly attempted to sacrifice his own life in order to save the
lives of his fellow innocent Karens who were about to be executed by
the Japanese troops.]
Thongmak, Seri and David L. Hulse.
"The Winds of Change: Karen People in Harmony with World Heritage." In
Elizabeth Kemf (ed.), The Law of the Mother: Protecting Indigenous
Peoples in Protected Areas, San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1993. pp. 161168.
Thorne, Christopher.
"Allies of a Kind." London: Oxford U Press, 1979.
KCHC
Truxton, Addison Strong.
"The Integration of Karen Peoples of Burma and Thailand into Their
Respective National Cultures: A Study in the Dynamics of Culture
Contact." M.A. thesis, Cornell University, 1958.
W..
Wade, Jonathan.
"Karen Vernacular Grammar, with English interspersed for the benefit of
foreign students." Moulmain: American Baptist Mission Press, 1861.
[This book, probably, is intended for the use of foreign missionaries
who want to learn spoken and written Karen, in a way to make it easier
for them to communicate with local people.] LC.
West, George A., and D. C. Atwool.
"Jungle Folk." Westminister, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
in Foreign Parts, 1933. 83p.
[As early Anglican missionaries to the Karens, authors illustrates
their works and lives among Karens of the Salween Valley.]
Wilson, Constance M.
"Burmese-Karen Warfare." JAAF 3:2 (Fall, 1978): 10-28.
Materials in this list are in English, unless otherwise noted with a "
* " symbol.
Abbreviations:
ANU = Australian National University
KBC = Karen Baptist Convention
KCHC = Karen Cultural and Historical Center, Bakersfield, California.
LC = The Library of Congress
NMNH - SI = National Museum of National History - Smithsonian
Institution