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Guide Olizane BIRMANIE
La Birmanie fait partie des dernières destinations mythiques d’Asie, au même titre peut-être que le Tibet ou le Bhoutan. Sous la coupe de l’une des dictatures militaires les plus caricaturales du monde durant près d’un demi-siècle, boycotté par la plupart des nations occidentales, ce pays a cependant effectué une mutation spectaculaire au cours de l’année 2011. Un nouveau gouvernement, issu d’élections considérées comme largement truquées, et sous la pression internationale, a consenti à d’importantes réformes, libérant des prisonniers politiques et instaurant un début de liberté de presse, autorisant le principal parti d’opposition dirigé par la Prix Nobel de la Paix Aung San Suu Kyi. Il a également suspendu des projets industriels contestés par les écologistes. Les immenses espoirs suscités par ces réformes sont à la hauteur des enjeux. Même si rien n’est encore gagné, le développement du pays passe également par celui du tourisme qui pourrait lui procurer une partie des ressources dont il a besoin pour consolider les changements et pour justifier le bien-fondé de la politique poursuivie par les autorités birmanes actuelles.
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Sons of the Buddha
Intended as a methodological and theoretical contribution to the study of religion and society, this book examines Buddhist monasticism in Myanmar. The book focuses on the Shwegyin, one of the most important but least understood monastic groups in the country. Analyzing the group as a tradition constructed around ideas of continuity and disruption/rupture, the study illuminates key aspects of monastic and wider Burmese Buddhist thought and practice, and ultimately argues for the distinctiveness of elements of that thought and practice in comparison to the Buddhist cultures of Sri Lanka and Laos. After situating the Shwegyin within the history of Buddhist monasticism more generally, and withi...
Guide Olizane Découverte OUZBEKISTAN
Des splendeurs bleues et or de Samarcande à la ville sainte de Boukhara qui peut s’enorgueillir de posséder une mosquée pour chaque jour de l’année – ou le khanat de Khiva entouré de déserts, le patrimoine architectural de l’Ouzbékistan est tout à fait extraordinaire. Entre sommets enneigés et déserts torrides, irriguées par les eaux du Toit du Monde, ses oasis fertiles ont attiré, tout au long de l’histoire bimillénaire de la Route de la Soie, d’innombrables voyageurs et conquérants dont les noms ont profondément marqué l’histoire humaine: Gengis Khan, Tamerlan, entre autres, ont légué un héritage dont nous pouvons encore admirer les vestiges aujourd’hui. ...
Home SOS
Drawing on 15 years of fieldwork and over 300 interviews, Home SOS argues that the home is central to the violence and gendered contingency of existence in crisis ordinary Cambodia. Provides an original book-length study which brings domestic violence and forced eviction into twin view Offers relational insights between different violences to build an integrated understanding of women’s experiences of home life Mobilises the crisis ordinary as a critical pedagogy and imaginary through which to understand everyday gendered politics of survival Positions domestic violence and forced eviction as manifestations of intimate war against women’s homes and bodies located inside and outside of the traditional purview of war Reaffirms and reprioritises the home as a political entity which is foundational to the concerns of human geography
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries is a collection of fourteen studies by a group of scholars active in the field of Central Asian Studies, presenting new research into various aspects of the rich cultural heritage of Central Asia (including Afghanistan). By mapping and exploring the interaction between political, ideological, literary and artistic production in Central Asia, the contributors offer a wide range of perspectives on the practice and usage of historical and religious commemoration in different contexts and timeframes. Making use of different approaches – historical, literary, anthropological, or critical heritage studies, the contributors show how memory functions as a fundamental constituent of identity formation in both past and present, and how this has informed perceptions in and outside Central Asia today.
Visions of Greater India
'Greater India' was a transimperial, Indocentric research paradigm that informed the colonial recovery of the ancient past in Central and Southeast Asia. Ancient India was postulated as the fount of an expansive classicism – an actor in world history on a par with ancient Greece and Rome. Under the Greater India movement, the scholarly quest for 'India in Asia' became tied to anti-colonial, pedagogical, nationalist and Asianist agendas. Yet although it provided a potent anti-colonial imaginary, the movement also bolstered visions of Indian exceptionalism and energized Hindu nationalist ideas of India as a civilizing, colonizing power. Speaking directly to debates that define and divide India today, this is essential reading for those interested in the legacies of Orientalist scholarship and interwar visions of Indian internationalism. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
