Proto-Karen: A Reanalysis.@@@Lahu and Proto-Lolo-Burmese.
Proto-Karen: A Reanalysis.@@@Lahu and Proto-Lolo-Burmese.
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原始克伦语:重新分析。@@@拉胡语和原始彝族缅甸语。
DOI:
10.2307/2942792
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发表时间:
1970
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通讯作者:
A. Becker
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作者:
Robert B. Jones;R. Burling;James A. Matisoff;A. Becker
the AFPFL split and the first Army coup, events close in time to his own field research. There are extensive quotes and the bibliography is conscientious. The original edition passes the test of time fairly easily. No controversial thesis was stated and all predictions were open-ended; so subsequent events (a short six years) have not eroded the validity of the printed word. Neither has subsequent scholarship challenged the accuracy of interpretations. The later contributions of Trager and Ba Maw were available to the author in article or interview form and there has been little else published that might contradict Butwell's findings since Burma became virtually closed to foreign scholarship after 1962. Dr. Maung Maung's Burma and General Ne Win does cast quite a different light on some of the same central events, such as the installation, continuation, and termination of the Caretaker Government. However, Dr. Maung Maung's insights are colored by the character of a work that may be considered an unauthorized official biography. How does the author fare on his second time around? The only significant change from the original is the addition of a last chapter of fairly sound political reporting on the seven years of Ne Win's Revolutionary Government. The great opportunity that Butwell missed was to give a second thought to the weakest part of his book, part two, which deals with U Nu's religious and political beliefs. Here the author could have incorporated with considerable merit the leads set out in Sarkisyanz's brilliant Buddhist Backgrounds of the Burmese Revolution. Or he might have made better use of his extensively collected materials to say something significant about charismatic leadership or the interplay of personality and politics by reference to the analytical models developed by Ann Willner and Lucian Pye. The conjunction of U Nu and Burma during the middle years of the 20th century present an auspicious opportunity which social science analysts have not yet seized.