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Title:

Burma at the turn of the twenty-first century / edited by Monique Skidmore.

Publisher:

University of Hawaii Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

vii, 304 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ethnology--Burma.
Burma--Social conditions.
Burma--Politics and government--1962-1988.
Burma--Politics and government--1988-
Burma--Social life and customs.
Ethnologie--Birmanie.
Birmanie--Conditions sociales.
Birmanie--Politique et gouvernement--1962-1988.
Birmanie--Politique et gouvernement--1988-
Birmanie--Mœurs et coutumes.

Other Authors:

Skidmore, Monique.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-285) and index.

Contents:

Part 4: The domestic domain. The future of Burma: children are like jewels / 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.

ISBN:

9780824828974 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0824828976 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780824828578 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0824828577 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005003440

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)