Burmese Lives: Ordinary Life Stories Under the Burmese Regime by Eric Tagliacozz

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This volume explores the life stories of ordinary Burmese by drawing on the narratives of individual subjects and using an array of interdisciplinary approaches. The constituted stories highlight the protagonists' survival strategies in everyday life that demonstrate their constant courage and frustration in dealing with numerous social injustices and adversities.

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This volume explores the life stories of ordinary Burmese by drawing on the narratives of individual subjects and using an array of interdisciplinary approaches, covering anthropology, history, literature, ethnomusicology, economics and political science. Burma is one of the most diverse societies in Southeast Asia in terms of its ethnic composition. It has a long history of resistance from the public realm against colonial rule and post-independence regimes.However, its isolation for decades before 1988 deprived scholars of a close look into the many faces of this society. Looking into the life stories of members of several major ethnic communities, who hailfrom different occupations and are of different ages and genders, this book has a particular significance that would help reveal the multiplicities of Burma's modern history. The authors of this volume write about stories of their long-term informants, close friends, family members, or even themselves to bring out a wide range of issues relating to migration, economy, politics, religion and culture. The constituted stories jointly highlight the protagonists' survival strategies in everyday lifethat demonstrate their constant courage, pain and frustration in dealing with numerous social injustices and adversities. Through these stories, we see movement of lives as well as that of Burmesesociety.

Author Biography

Wen-Chin Chang is Associate Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. She is a native of Tainan, Taiwan and a PhD graduate of the University of Leuven Belgium.Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University, and a PhD graduate of Yale University.Both have been working in Southeast Asian Studies for some two decades.

Table of Contents

Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin ChangIntroduction: Burmese Lives in a Divided StateI. The Specter of Hardship1. Mandy SadanThe Extra-ordinariness of Ordinary Lives2. Pascal Khoo-ThweThe Kayan Padaung Community in PhekhonII. Negotiating with the State3. Bénédicte Brac de la PerrièreA Woman of Mediation4. Eric TagliacozzoBurmese and Muslim: Islam and the Hajj in the Sangha StateIII. Ways of Escape5. Hsin-chun Tasaw LuRecounting, Resistance, and Reflection: An Analysis of a Burmese Classical Musician's Narrative6. James C. ScottDr. U Tin Win, Escape ArtistIV. At Burma's Margins7. Maxime BoutryThe Maung Aye's Legacy: Burmese and Moken Encounters in the Southern Borderlands of Myanmar, 1987-20078. Wen-Chin ChangBy Sea and by Land: Stories of Two Chinese TradersV. Ethnicity and the Self9. Ma ThidaA Mixed Identity, a Mixed Career10. Karin EberhardtA Life in Service of Change11. Ardeth Maung ThawnghmungFrom the "Loyal" to the "Revolutionary" Karen: Looking at Burma's Post-Independent Eras

Review

Burmese Lives succeeds in adopting personal narrative -- a rarely used methodology -- in the study of contemporary Myanmar, examining the interactions between the narrators and the contexts in which the narrators live, and leading readers to know more about the multifaceted realities of Myanmar history. * Kai Chen, Political Studies Review *

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This volume explores the life stories of ordinary Burmese by drawing on the narratives of individual subjects and using an array of interdisciplinary approaches, covering anthropology, history, literature, ethnomusicology, economics and political science

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This volume explores the life stories of ordinary Burmese by drawing on the narratives of individual subjects and using an array of interdisciplinary approaches, covering anthropology, history, literature, ethnomusicology, economics and political science. Burma is one of the most diverse societies in Southeast Asia in terms of its ethnic composition. It has a long history of resistance from the public realm against colonial rule and post-independence regimes.However, its isolation for decades before 1988 deprived scholars of a close look into the many faces of this society. Looking into the life stories of members of several major ethnic communities, who hail from different occupations and are of different ages and genders, this book has a particularsignificance that would help reveal the multiplicities of Burma's modern history. The authors of this volume write about stories of their long-term informants, close friends, family members, or even themselves to bring out a wide range of issues relating to migration, economy, politics, religion and culture. The constituted stories jointly highlight the protagonists' survival strategies in everyday life that demonstrate their constant courage, pain and frustration in dealing with numeroussocial injustices and adversities. Through these stories, we see movement of lives as well as that of Burmese society.

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Burmese Lives succeeds in adopting personal narrative 'e" a rarely used methodology 'e" in the study of contemporary Myanmar, examining the interactions between the narrators and the contexts in which the narrators live, and leading readers to know more about the multifaceted realities of Myanmar history.

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Selling point: The most up-to-date exploration of ordinary Burmese, taking into account the recent amazing transition from authoritarianism to an emerging democracySelling point: Showcases interdisciplinary approaches, covering anthropology, history, literature, ethnomusicology, economics and political science

Details ISBN0199335044 Short Title BURMESE LIVES Language English ISBN-10 0199335044 ISBN-13 9780199335046 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2014 Subtitle Ordinary Life Stories Under the Burmese Regime Author Wen-Chin Chang Illustrations Yes Edited by Wen-Chin Chang Position PhD Candidate Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Affiliation PhD Candidate, University of Notre Dame Publication Date 2014-04-17 UK Release Date 2014-04-17 AU Release Date 2014-04-17 NZ Release Date 2014-04-17 US Release Date 2014-04-17 Illustrator David Dean Birth 1964 Death 1593 Qualifications QC Pages 288 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Alternative 9780199335039 DEWEY 959.1053 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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