Close Proximity

“Whenever I think of that time I feel like crying..."

"...then he badmouths me, and I’m the one earning my own living."

• Household Structure

• Sensitive Interaction

• Relationships and Marriage

• Gender Roles

“Hey, box, hey baskets and bananas, go into the house, now, get inside!”

• Household Structure

• Relationships and Marriage

• Gender Roles

• Spirituality, Stoicism and Patience

So that he would not leave, the villagers had made a match for him

with a forty year-old seamstress, Daw Pan U...

• Spirituality, Stoicism and Patience

• Household Structure

• Gender Roles

• Modesty and Face

The marriage of the confirmed bachelor and the old maid did not work out too well...

• Sensitive Interaction

• Social Hierarchies

• Relationships and Marriage

• Spirituality, Stoicism and Patience

When Ma Thaw was ten years old, one stove became two in this kitchen ….one for her father and one for her mother. For twenty five years and with Ma Thaw now an old maid of thirty five, her parents had not spoken to each other.

• Relationships and Marriage

• Spirituality, Stoicism and Patience

• Gender Roles

• Household Structure

May all creatures be blessed, but not that person in my house!

• Modesty and Face; Social Hierarchy

• Social Hierarchy

• Spirituality, Stoicism and Patience

• Gender Roles