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UNINA9910842599603321 |
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Autore |
Beyer Judith |
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Titolo |
Rethinking Community in Myanmar : Practices of We-Formation among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon / / Judith Beyer |
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Honolulu : , : University of Hawaii Press, , [2024] |
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2022 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Communities - Religious aspects - Islam |
Communities - Religious aspects - Hinduism |
Burma Religious life and customs |
Rangoon (Burma) Religious life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Author’s Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Classifying the Indian Other -- 2. Making oneself a(t) home -- 3. Caught by the Goddess -- 4. The making of a community in court -- 5. Marrying ‘up’: self-objects, race, and class -- 6. Belonging, suffering, and the body of others -- Conclusion: We-formation in times of ‘communal’ violence -- Colour Section -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this first anthropological study of Muslim and Hindu lives in urban Myanmar today, Judith Beyer develops the concept of “we-formation” to demonstrate that individuals are always more than members of wider groups. “We-formation” complements her rich political, legal, and historical analysis of “community,” a term used by Beyer’s interlocutors themselves, even as it reinforces ethno-religious stereotypes and their own minority status. The book also offers an interpretation of the dynamics of resistance to the attempted military coup of 2021. |
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