Rethinking Community in Myanmar : Practices of We-Formation among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon / / Judith Beyer

• Autore: Beyer Judith
• Pubblicazione: Honolulu : , : University of Hawaii Press, , [2024]; 2022
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.609591
• Soggetto topico: Communities - Religious aspects - Islam; Communities - Religious aspects - Hinduism
• Soggetto geografico: Burma Religious life and customs; Rangoon (Burma) Religious life and customs
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking community in Myanmar
• ISBN: 0-8248-9807-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910842599603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II