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Rethinking community in Myanmar : practices of we-formation among Muslims and Hindus in urban Yangon / Judith Beyer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2024]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780824898090
  • 0824898095
  • 9780824898083
  • 0824898087
  • 9780824898076
  • 0824898079
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BL2053
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Contents:
Classifying the Indian Other -- Making oneself a(t) home -- Caught by the Goddess -- The making of a community in court -- Marrying 'up': self-objects, race, and class -- Belonging, suffering, and the body of others -- Conclusion: We-formation in times of 'communal' violence
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifying the Indian Other -- Making oneself a(t) home -- Caught by the Goddess -- The making of a community in court -- Marrying 'up': self-objects, race, and class -- Belonging, suffering, and the body of others -- Conclusion: We-formation in times of 'communal' violence

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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