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Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Series: Studies in Asian Topics, 39
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While the image of modern Myanmar/Burma tends to be couched in
human rights terms - and especially of a heroic Aung San Suu Kyi
opposing an oppressive military regime - in reality there are
several conflicts with ethnic and religious dimensions, as well as
political and ideological differences between the opposition and
the ruling military regime. This is not surprising in a country
where 30 per cent of the population and much of the land area are
non-Burman, and where contradictory tendencies towards regional
separatism versus unitary rule have divided the people since before
independence. In what is probably the most comprehensive study of
Burma's ethnic minorities to date, this volume discusses the
historical formation of ethnic identity and its complexities in
relation to British colonial rule as well as to the modern State,
the present situation of military rule and its policy of
'myanmarfication'. Changes of identity in exile and due to
religious conversion are analysed and discussed. Finally, the book
deals with relevant and recent anthropological and sociological
theoretical discussions on the ethnic identity, boundaries and
space of all the main ethnic groups in Burma. It probes into the
complexity and diversity and it provides more details and
up-to-date information than previously collected in one volume.
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