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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 1089–1110.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Hilary Oliva Faxon Along the Integral Margin: Uneven Development in a Myanmar Squatter Settlement . By Stephen Campbell . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2022 . 210 pp. ISBN: 9781501764882 . Forging the Nation: Land Struggles in Myanmar's Transition Period...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1090–1092.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Vivian Shaw Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar . By Chika Watanabe . Honolulu : University Hawai‘i Press , 2019 . xiv, 239 pp. ISBN: 9780824875268 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020...
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 7. Statue carver at work near the Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon, Myanmar. Photo by Laurel Kendall.
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 8. Mat shed statue shop, Taungbyon Festival, near Mandalay, Myanmar. Photo by Laurel Kendall.
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 641–656.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung Abstract Myanmar has been conventionally regarded as one of the most repressive countries in the world. As a result, many scholars, journalists, and human rights organizations understandably focus their attention on the draconian policies of the Myanmarese military regime...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (3): 891–893.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Michael W. Charney Historical Dictionary of Myanmar . By Jan Becka . Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press , 1995 . xxii, 328 pp. $47.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 891 "vitally vibrant" and "mostly successful" (p. 169...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 507–508.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Erick White Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand, and Beyond . Edited by Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann . Copenhagen : NIAS Press , 2022 . xii, 311 pp. ISBN: 9788776943073 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Focused on the growing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 501–503.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Pinkaew Laungaramsri Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and Nation-State Deferred . By Jane M. Ferguson . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2021 . 303 pp. ISBN: 9780299333003 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Studies of nation and nationalism have...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 509–510.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Jane M. Ferguson Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar . By Ken MacLean . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2022 . xiv, 284 pp. ISBN: 9780520385412 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 At the time of writing this review...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 846–849.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Jacques P. Leider Buddhism, Politics and Political Thought in Myanmar . By Matthew J. Walton . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . xv, 226 pp. ISBN: 9781107155695 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 853–877.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Simon Creak Abstract “Myanmar is telling Asia ‘we are coming back!’ This is the time. Watch out! We are coming back. After the SEA Games, we will host ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations]. Big things are happening in our country.” “Kyaw,” an amiable rig coordinator in his early thirties...
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in National Restoration, Regional Prestige: The Southeast Asian Games in Myanmar, 2013
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 November 2014
Figure 6. The Myanmar crowd cheers at a boxing bout. Photo by Simon Creak.
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1189–1191.
Published: 01 November 2012
... situation, in which “Buddhist communities have produced and reproduced historical formations that intertwined Buddhism with the moral claims of the state” (p. 10). In her book Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar , anthropologist Juliane Schober explores the complex and often fraught relationship...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1503–1505.
Published: 01 November 2008
... in textile types. They acknowledge that these are arbitrary divisions, but ones that frame the Chin appropriately in examining tribal textile culture. The book includes a map at the beginning, providing a clear geographic sense of adjoining regions of Myanmar, Bangladesh, and India inhabited by the Chin...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 371–397.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Elliott Prasse-Freeman Abstract Burma/Myanmar's postcolonial elites have established a military-state with hybrid-imperial structures, characterized by high despotic but low infrastructural modes of power, and fueled by rent-extraction. Given the resulting evisceration of opposition political...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 759–761.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the journey he and his wife undertook in 1985–87, on foot, to visit all the insurgent forces active in Northern Burma (Myanmar)—including what was then the Communist Party of Burma's base camps in today's Wa State. The semiautonomous Wa State is located in the part of the Wa lands that ended up as part...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 210–212.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Faizah Zakaria Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar . By Jonathan Saha . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . xiv, 234 pp. ISBN: 9781108839402 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 While there have been many studies of how animals were put...
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in Breaking the Saffron Wave?: Sangha Capture in South and Southeast Asia
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2024
FIGURE 1 Structure of the Sangha Organization in Myanmar according to official Ma Ha Na website. The website uses the alternative spelling samgha rather than the standard sangha . http://www.mahana.org.mm/en/the-samgha-organization-of-different-levels/the-structure-of-the-samgha-organization
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 620–621.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Michael W. Charney Rebel Politics: A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar's Borderlands . By David Brenner . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Southeast Asia Program , 2019 . xiv , 146 pp. ISBN: 9781501740091 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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in National Restoration, Regional Prestige: The Southeast Asian Games in Myanmar, 2013
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 November 2014
Figure 1. Myanmar's national game, chinlone , performed during the closing ceremony. Photo by Simon Creak.
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