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Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century / ed. by Monique Skidmore.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824828578
  • 9780824861728
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.09591 22
LOC classification:
  • GN635.B8 B87 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Burma at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century -- Part 1: Spirituality, Pilgrimage, and Economics -- 2. The Cheaters: Journey to the Land of the Lottery -- 3. Women's Practices of Renunciation in the Age of Sāsana Revival -- 4. The Taungbyon Festival: Locality and Nation-Confronting in the Cult of the 37 Lords -- 5. Respected Grandfather, Bless This Nissan: Benevolent and Politically Neutral Bo Bo Gyi -- Part 2: Political and Moral Legitimation -- 6. Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Modernity in Burma -- 7. Sacralizing or Demonizing Democracy? Aung San Suu Kyi's "Personality Cult" -- 8. The Chicken and the Scorpion: Rumor, Counternarratives, and the Political Uses of Buddhism -- Part 3: Public Performance -- 9. Writing in a Crazy Way: Literary Life in Contemporary Urban Burma -- 10. "But Princes Jump!": Performing Masculinity in Mandalay -- 11. Who's Performing What? State Patronage and the Transformation of Burmese Music -- Part 4: The Domestic Domain -- 12. The Future of Burma: Children Are Like Jewels -- References -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Burma at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century -- Part 1: Spirituality, Pilgrimage, and Economics -- 2. The Cheaters: Journey to the Land of the Lottery -- 3. Women's Practices of Renunciation in the Age of Sāsana Revival -- 4. The Taungbyon Festival: Locality and Nation-Confronting in the Cult of the 37 Lords -- 5. Respected Grandfather, Bless This Nissan: Benevolent and Politically Neutral Bo Bo Gyi -- Part 2: Political and Moral Legitimation -- 6. Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Modernity in Burma -- 7. Sacralizing or Demonizing Democracy? Aung San Suu Kyi's "Personality Cult" -- 8. The Chicken and the Scorpion: Rumor, Counternarratives, and the Political Uses of Buddhism -- Part 3: Public Performance -- 9. Writing in a Crazy Way: Literary Life in Contemporary Urban Burma -- 10. "But Princes Jump!": Performing Masculinity in Mandalay -- 11. Who's Performing What? State Patronage and the Transformation of Burmese Music -- Part 4: The Domestic Domain -- 12. The Future of Burma: Children Are Like Jewels -- References -- Contributors -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)