TY - BOOK TI - Burmese lives : ordinary life stories under the Burmese regime SN - 9780199335039 (hardback : alk. paper) U1 - 920.0591 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Burma KW - Social conditions N1 - 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 ER -