| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-285) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Burma.
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Myanmar -- Politics and government -- 1962-1988.
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Myanmar -- Politics and government -- 1988-
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Myanmar -- Social conditions.
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Myanmar -- Social life and customs.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Skidmore, Monique.
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University of Hawaii (System). Press.
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| ISBN |
0824861728 (electronic bk.) |
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9780824828974 |
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9780824861728 (electronic bk.) |
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