Rethinking Community in Myanmar : Practices of We-Formation among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon
(eBook)

English

10.1515/9780824898076

Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 d star

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.

funded by Centre for Cultural Inquiry (ZKF), University of Konstanz

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

In English.