Michael W. Charney

Although the core of Michael Charney's research and teaching has been on societies in South East Asia, his training, teaching, and research interests are much broader and this is reflected in part in the focus in his work on issues of movement, contact, and friction in culture, technology, and religion in both the premodern and modern periods between cultures and in frontier zones as varied as Brahmanic and Buddhist interaction on the Chindwin River in Upper Burma, Islamic and Buddhist …