Research Catalog
Burma at the turn of the twenty-first century
- Title
- Burma at the turn of the twenty-first century / edited by Monique Skidmore.
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2005.
Available Online
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 05-10456 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Skidmore, Monique.
- Description
- vii, 304 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-285) and index.
- 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 of 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-10456
- ISBN
- 0824828577 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0824828976 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005003440
- 9780824828578
- 9780824828974
- OCLC
- 57652327
- Title
- Burma at the turn of the twenty-first century / edited by Monique Skidmore.
- Imprint
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-285) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Skidmore, Monique.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 97808248285789780824828974
- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-10456