Burmese lives : ordinary life stories under the Burmese regime /
Burmese lives : ordinary life stories under the Burmese regime /
edited by Wen-Chin Chang, Eric Tagliacozzo.
- New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- viii, 268 pages : map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Burmese lives in a divided state / Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang -- The extra-ordinariness of ordinary lives / Mandy Sadan -- The Kayan Padaung community in Pekhon, southern Shan State, Burma / Pascal Khoo-Thwe -- A woman of mediation / Bénédicte Brac de La Perrière -- Burmese and Muslim : Islam and the hajj in the sangha state / Eric Tagliacozzo -- Recounting, resistance, and reflection : an analysis of a Burmese classical musician's narrative / Hsin-chun Tasaw Lu -- Dr. U Tin Win, escape artist / James Scott -- The Maung Aye's legacy : Burmese and Moken encounters in the southern borderlands of Myanmar, 1987-2007 / Maxime Boutry -- By sea and by land : stories of two Chinese traders / Wen-Chin Chang -- A mixed identity, a mixed career / Ma Thida -- At the community's service : a transformational life / Karin Eberhardt -- From the "loyal" to the "revolutionary" Karen : looking at Burma's post-independent eras through the life of Maung Sin Kye / Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung.
9780199335039 (hardback : alk. paper) 0199335036 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780199335046 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0199335044 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Burma
Burma--Social conditions
920.0591 / CHA/C
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Burmese lives in a divided state / Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang -- The extra-ordinariness of ordinary lives / Mandy Sadan -- The Kayan Padaung community in Pekhon, southern Shan State, Burma / Pascal Khoo-Thwe -- A woman of mediation / Bénédicte Brac de La Perrière -- Burmese and Muslim : Islam and the hajj in the sangha state / Eric Tagliacozzo -- Recounting, resistance, and reflection : an analysis of a Burmese classical musician's narrative / Hsin-chun Tasaw Lu -- Dr. U Tin Win, escape artist / James Scott -- The Maung Aye's legacy : Burmese and Moken encounters in the southern borderlands of Myanmar, 1987-2007 / Maxime Boutry -- By sea and by land : stories of two Chinese traders / Wen-Chin Chang -- A mixed identity, a mixed career / Ma Thida -- At the community's service : a transformational life / Karin Eberhardt -- From the "loyal" to the "revolutionary" Karen : looking at Burma's post-independent eras through the life of Maung Sin Kye / Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung.
9780199335039 (hardback : alk. paper) 0199335036 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780199335046 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0199335044 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Burma
Burma--Social conditions
920.0591 / CHA/C