Surviving the State : Land and Democracy in Myanmar - Hilary Oliva Faxon Pages:244 pages, 30 illustrationsIn Myanmar's Kalay Valley, a rice growing region near the Indian border, farmers have long been subject to violence and neglect. Surviving the State considers how these farmers' everyday, land based practices enable them to endure successive authoritarian regimes. Through robust ethnography, Hilary Oliva Faxon describes how Burman and Chin smallholders treat land not only as a source of food, but also as a living thing entwined with the families it
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