This is the first study in a half century of one of the least known societies in the contemporary world. Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century provides insight into the everyday lives, concerns, and values of the people of this reclusive nation. Prominent anthropologists and religion scholars with in-depth, long-term knowledge of central Burma offer detailed analyses of the ways in which Burmese actively manage and create lives for themselves in the shadow of a military dictatorship. Their research crosses the domains of religious, political, and social life, examining public festivals and performance, local-state relations, literary life, lottery frenzies, mass meditators, political rumors and black humor, the value of children, changing male identities, and more in this impressive, wide-ranging collection.
Thant Myint-U shows how the country’s past shapes its recent and almost unbelievable attempt to create a new democracy in the heart of Asia, and helps to answer the big questions: Can this multicultural country of 55 million succeed?
While land reform programmes carried through by the regime gave agricultural plots to many landless farmers, farmers were told that they had to sell their rice to the government, at below market prices. Frustrated with the new system, ...
Textile Cultures, Craftsmanship, and Identity in Contemporary Myanmar Jella Fink. Robinson, M. D. (2011). Meaning in chaos? ... In M. Skidmore (Ed.), Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century (pp. 113–132). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i ...
Buddhist Backgrounds of the Burmese Revolution. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. Schober, J. (2005). “Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Modernity”, in Monique Skidmore (ed.), Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century.
State Patronage and the Transformation of Burmese Music', in Monique Skidmore (ed), Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005) Edwards, Penny, 'Halfcast: Staging Race in British Burma', ...
It will be demonstrated that, contrary to conventional claims, Burma at the turn of the 21st century still offers far more resistance to the strategic thrusts of its Indian and Chinese neighbors than often perceived.
In this book the author argues that white supremacy has fundamentally shaped Buddhist religious practices in the U.S.
Pearson, Ruth, and Kyoko Kusakabe, Thailand's Hidden Workforce: Burmese Migrant Women Factory Workers (London: Zed, 2012) 1510. Pim Koetsawang, In Search of Sunlight: Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand (Bangkok: Orchid Press, ...
Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005). Smith, Martin, Arakan (Rakhin State): A Land of Conflict on Myanmar's Western Frontier (Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Transnational Institute (TNI), ...
“Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Civil Society: The Search for the Post-colonial State in Burma,” In Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century, ed. Monique Skidmore, 113–33. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.