Burma at the turn of the twenty-first century /

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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Skidmore, Monique (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2005]
Temas:
Since 1962
Ethnology > Burma.
Ethnologie > Birmanie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Ethnology.
Manners and customs.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Gesellschaft
Kultur
Politik
Politik.
Kultur.
Gesellschaft.
Burma > Social conditions.
Burma > Politics and government > 1962-1988.
Burma > Politics and government > 1988-
Burma > Social life and customs.
Birmanie > Conditions sociales.
Birmanie > Politique et gouvernement > 1962-1988.
Birmanie > Politique et gouvernement > 1988-
Birmanie > Mœurs et coutumes.
Burma.
Birma
Birma.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Burma at the turn of the twenty-first century / Monique Skidmore
  • Part 1: Spirituality, pilgrimage, and economics. The cheaters: journey to the land of the lottery / Guillaume Rozenberg
  • Women's practices of renunciation in the age of Sāsana revival / Ingrid Jordt
  • The Taungbyon Festival: locality and nation-confronting in the Cult of the 37 Lords / Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière
  • Respected grandfather, bless this Nissan: benevolent and politically neutral Bo Bo Gyi / Mandy Sadan
  • Part 2: Political and moral legitimation. Buddhist visions of moral authority and modernity in Burma / Juliane Schober
  • Sacralizing or demonizing democracy? Aung San Suu Kyi's "personality cult" / Gustaaf Houtman
  • The chicken and the scorpion: rumor, counternarratives, and the political uses of Buddhism / Keiko Tosa
  • Part 3: Public performance. Writing in a crazy way: literary life in contemporary urban Burma / Jennifer Leehey
  • "But princes jump!": performing masculinity in Mandalay / Ward Keeler
  • Who's performing what? State patronage and the tranformation of Burmese music / Gavin Douglas
  • Part 4: The domestic domain. The future of Burma: children are like jewels / Monique Skidmore.

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