Pagan: The Origins of Modern Burma

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); gray cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxii,[1],2-264,[4]pp; photographic frontispiece with illustrations throughout text. This copy from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Slight indentation to fore-edge of front board, with pencilled notes to upper front endpapers, and a bookshop sticker to lower front pastedown; Very Good+. Dustwrapper has trivial surfae wear, with light creases to corners; Very Good+.

Explores Pagan in Burmese and Southeast Asian studies, with sections including "Components of the Indigenous Conceptual System", "The Institutional Context: Organization of Human and Material Resources", and "The Effects of Beliefs and Institutions on Events", and a concluding glossary and bibliography. [86873].