The traffic in hierarchy : masculinity and its others in Buddhist Burma /

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Until its recent political thaw, Burma was closed to most foreign researchers, and fieldwork-based research was rare. In The Traffic in Hierarchy, one of the few such works to appear in recent years, author Ward Keeler combines close ethnographic attention to life in a Buddhist monastery with a broa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Keeler, Ward (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Social status > Burma.
Buddhism > Social aspects > Burma.
Masculinity > Social aspects > Burma.
Statut social > Birmanie.
Masculinité > Aspect social > Birmanie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Masculinity > Social aspects.
Buddhism > Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
Social status.
Burma > Social life and customs.
Burma.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Hierarchy in Traffic
  • Chapter One: Everyday Forms of Hierarchical Observance
  • Chapter Two: A Description of the Shweigyin Monastery
  • Chapter Three: Discretionary Attachments
  • Chapter Four: Taking Dumont to Southeast Asia
  • Chapter Five: Hierarchical Habits
  • Chapter Six: Gaining Access to Power
  • Chapter Seven: Meditation
  • Chapter Eight: Masculinity
  • Chapter Nine: Masculinityâ#x80;#x99;s Others
  • Chapter Ten: Taking Autonomy and Attachment Further AfieldReferences
  • Index

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