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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mikael Gravers |
| ISBN: | 0700709800 9780700709809 0700709819 9780700709816 |
| OCLC Number: | 42260092 |
| Description: | xvi, 167 p. : maps ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | The colonial club : 'natives not admitted!' -- The violent 'pacification' of Burma -- Buddhist cosmology and political power -- The colonisation of Burmese identity -- Buddhism, xenophobia and rebellion in the 1930s -- Two versions of nationalism : union state or ethnicism -- Buddhism and military power : two different strategies : two different thakins -- Ne Win's club -- Aung San Suu Kyi's strategy -- Nationalism as the practice of power -- The rules of the Myanmar Club since 1993 -- Buddhism and the religious divide among the Karen -- U Thuzana and vegan Buddhism -- Buddhism, prophecies and rebellion -- Autocracy and nationalism -- Historicism, historical memory and power -- A final word : but no conclusion. |
| Series Title: | NIAS reports, no. 11. |
| Responsibility: | by Mikael Gravers. |
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