Essays on Burma
Author: John P. Ferguson
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9789004063235
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Author: John P. Ferguson
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9789004063235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Than Tun
Publisher: Kiscadale Publications
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John P Ferguson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-01-15
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9004658378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mikael Gravers
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780700709809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines the complex relationship between nationalism, violence and Buddhism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Burma, bringing us to present-day Burma and the struggle by Aung San Suu Kyi for a new Burmese identity.
Author: John H. Badgley
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStrategic interests in Myanmar / John H. Badgley -- Myanmar's political future, is waiting for the perfect enemy of doing the possible? / Robert H. Taylor -- Burma/Myanmar, a guide for the perplexed? / David I. Steinberg -- King Solomon's judgment / Helen James -- The role of minorities in the transitional process / Seng Raw -- Will Western sanctions bring down the house? / Kyaw Yin Hlaing -- The crisis in Burma/Myanmar, foreign aid as a tool for democratization / Morten B. Pedersen.
Author: Aung San Suu Kyi
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2010-02-04
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0141041447
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Author: Monique Skidmore
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2005-07-31
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780824828974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: John P. Ferguson
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9789004063235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thant Myint-U
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-11-12
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1324003308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did one of the world’s "buzzy hotspots" (Fodor’s 2013) become one of the top ten places to avoid (Fodor’s 2018)? Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma’s population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades of military dictatorship finally ended and internationally beloved Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from long years of house arrest, hopes soared. World leaders such as Barack Obama ushered in waves of international support. Progress seemed inevitable. As historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U saw the cracks forming. In this insider’s diagnosis of a country at a breaking point, he dissects how a singularly predatory economic system, fast-rising inequality, disintegrating state institutions, the impact of new social media, the rise of China next door, climate change, and deep-seated feelings around race, religion, and national identity all came together to challenge the incipient democracy. Interracial violence soared and a horrific exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fixed international attention. Myint-U explains how and why this happened, and details an unsettling prognosis for the future. Burma is today a fragile stage for nearly all the world’s problems. Are democracy and an economy that genuinely serves all its people possible in Burma? In clear and urgent prose, Myint-U explores this question—a concern not just for the Burmese but for the rest of the world—warning of the possible collapse of this nation of 55 million while suggesting a fresh agenda for change.
Author: Kate Crosby
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9971697807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHidden at the margins of Burmese Buddhism and culture, the cults of the weikza shape Burmese culture by bringing together practices of supernatural power and a mission to protect Buddhism. This exciting new research on an often hidden aspect of Burmese religion places weikza in relation to the Vipassana insight meditation movement and conventional Buddhist practices, as well as the contemporary rise of Buddhist fundamentalism. Featuring research based on fieldwork only possible in recent years, paired with reflective essays by senior Buddhist studies scholars, this book situates the weikza cult in relation to broader Buddhist and Southeast Asian contexts, offering interpretations and investigations as rich and diverse as the Burmese expressions of the weikza cults themselves. Champions of Buddhism opens the field to new questions, new problems, and new connections with the study of religion and Southeast Asia in general.