From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

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HarperCollins, 2002 - 304 Seiten
The autobiographical story of a young man's upbringing in a remote tribal village in Burma and his subsequent journey from his strife-torn country to the tranquil quads of Cambridge. Pascal Khoo-thwe describes his childhood and early days as a member of the Padaung hill tribe, where ancestor worship and communion with spirits blended with the tribe's recent conversion to Christianity. In the 1930s, Pascal's grandfather (and head of the clan) captured an Italian Jesuit, mistaking him for a giant or a wild beast; the Jesuit in turn converted the tribe.

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Idyll of the Tribe Prologue Imagined Journeys 378
3
The Goddess of Creation
7
Grandfathers Domain
20
Urheberrecht

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