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Burma at the turn of the twenty-first century / edited by Monique Skidmore.
- Title
- Burma at the turn of the twenty-first century / edited by Monique Skidmore.
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Skidmore, Monique.
- Description
- vii, 304 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-285) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0824828577 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0824828976 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780824828578
- 9780824828974
- LCCN
- ^^2005003440
- OCLC
- 57652327
- SCSB-10562483
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library