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020 _a9780199335039 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 _a0199335036 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 _a9780199335046 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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082 0 0 _a920.0591
_bCHA/C
245 0 0 _aBurmese lives : ordinary life stories under the Burmese regime /
_cedited by Wen-Chin Chang, Eric Tagliacozzo.
260 _aNew York:
_bOxford University Press,
_c2014.
300 _aviii, 268 pages :
_bmap ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
651 0 _aBurma
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651 0 _aBurma
_xSocial conditions
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942 _cWB16
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