Robert Anderson is Professor of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Author of many books and articles, since 1998 he has been helping young environmentalists from many disciplines to strengthen their capacity to do research and to influence the development of environmental policy and law in Burma/Myanmar. The project is supported by the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa. He has also for many years been researching the intellectual career of Edmund Leach, whose seminal work on the Kachin region, Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure (London, 1954) has
influenced so many. A manuscript titled Highland Burma, Edmund Leach, and Anthropology in Guerilla Warfare is currently in preparation. For information about Mandy Sadan, see Introduction. |
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