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Voices of Weavers
The lives of weavers and their textile creations form the central subject in this monograph. It explores an understudied field of material culture studies in contemporary Myanmar. Textile cultures, craftsmanship and (national) identity are the core topoi of this work. Embedded in a century of shifting political and economic systems, the documented weaving cultures enhance our understanding of transformation processes on the local level. This book brings together current impulses of material culture studies and observations based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork data.
Current Myanmar Studies
Myanmar shifted into the centre of international attention in 2011, when the new civilian government took over. Enormous media scrutiny began in 2017 and 2018 after the outbreak of violence between Muslim and Buddhist population groups. This book brings together papers presented at the Myanmar Conference 2017, the annual gathering of German-speaking Myanmar scholars. It contains articles concerned with the major issues currently facing development in Myanmar. Topics explored here include Muslims in Arakan (widely known as Rohingya) and how they became foreigners in Myanmar; the economic perspective of everyday life on one side and governmental planning on the other side; Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of the country, and the various challenges she faces as a female politician; and an ethnographic note on how textile production can look in the hinterland of Shan State.
On Money and Metta
Money and Mettā symbolize the interconnectedness of economic processes and moral ideas in a Buddhist context mettā , 'loving kindness', constitutes a core concept of Buddhism. Based on eighteen months of research in the lowland Myanmar town of Pathein, this book investigates manifold economic activities on the ground. Particular attention is paid to the self-employed and their relationships with relatives, workers, and community members. The ethnography covers a range of topics, including business formation and succession, recruitment, child labour, ethnicity, indebtedness and charity. It is demonstrated that, amidst rapidly changing socio-economic conditions, values rooted in kinship morality and Buddhism remain significant and continue to shape peoples economic reasoning and activities.
Myanmar (Burma) since the 1988 Uprising
Updated by popular demand, this is the fourth edition of this important bibliography. It lists a wide selection of works on or about Myanmar published in English and in hard copy since the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, which marked the beginning of a new era in Myanmar’s modern history. There are now 2,727 titles listed. They have been written, edited, translated or compiled by over 2,000 people, from many different backgrounds. These works have been organized into thirty-five subject chapters containing ninety-five discrete sections. There are also four appendices, including a comprehensive reading guide for those unfamiliar with Myanmar or who may be seeking guidance on particular topics. This book is an invaluable aid to officials, scholars, journalists, armchair travellers and others with an interest in this fascinating but deeply troubled country.
Paideuma
Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde.
Textiles as National Heritage: Identities, Politics and Material Culture
The edited volume discusses the role of textile heritage in relation to the dynamics of nation building, cultural identity, politics, economy and the globalization of markets. It was sparked by a research project investigating the role of textiles, textile design and contemporary fashion in the post-Soviet societies of Central Asia and also includes perspectives on similar developments in Algeria and Peru in order to question dichotomous narrations of modernity relations between textile cultures and heritage building, cultural property, and the concept of cultural heritage. Thus, this book intends to stimulate the ongoing debate about textile culture as national heritage or as means of nation branding.
Okzidentalismen
Historische Aneignungen und ästhetische Konstruktionen außereuropäischer Kulturen innerhalb der westlichen Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte sind relativ gut erforscht. Untersuchungen zu den mannigfaltigen Westprojektionen und -reflexionen bis in die Gegenwart stellen jedoch ein Forschungsdesiderat dar. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes fragen: Unter welchen historischen und geopolitischen Bedingungen formt sich ein okzidentales Kultur- und Kunstbewusstsein aus? Welche Ab- und Ausgrenzungsmechanismen spielen dabei eine Rolle? Im Zentrum der Analyse steht eine kritische Okzidentalismusreflexion und deren Beeinflussung durch die geopolitische Deplatzierung und Zersplitterung des Westens.
Ethnologie
Die Ethnologie hat sich gerade in jüngster Zeit vom Nischenfach zu einer interdisziplinären Grundwissenschaft entwickelt, deren Methoden in vielen Fächern Anwendung finden. Zugleich gibt es immer weniger Klarheit über ihre zentralen Fragen und Kernkompetenzen. Vor diesem Hintergrund führt Hans Peter Hahn nicht nur didaktisch klug in ethnologische Grundbegriffe und Fachtraditionen ein, sondern thematisiert auch ausgewählte Fragen, die für eine gegenwartsorientierte Ethnologie von besonderer Bedeutung sind. Die Unterschiede zu anderen Disziplinen spielen dabei ebenso eine Rolle wie die Grundlagen, die Ethnologen mit anderen Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaftlern teilen.
Handbuch Materielle Kultur
Was die Welt der Dinge über uns verrät. Alltagsdinge, Erinnerungsdinge, häusliche und religiöse Dinge: Das sind einige Beispiele materieller Hinterlassenschaften und allgegenwärtiger Spuren unserer Gesellschaft von uns gesammelt, getauscht oder recycelt. Das Handbuch befasst sich mit den Beziehungsgefügen, in denen sich Dinge befinden, zum Beispiel in der Kultur, der Sprache, der Identität und der Macht. Es beschreibt Praktiken und erklärt Begriffe, darunter Abfall, Aura, Fetisch, Fragmente und Kitsch.
Translocality, Entrepreneurship and Middle Class Across Eurasia
Translocality, Entrepreneurship and Middle Class Across Eurasia is a comprehensive, multi-sited ethnography about the unfolding of capitalism across Eurasia and the advent of a new middle class since the late Soviet era. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book follows three generations of ethnic Kyrgyz in three distinct eras and sites: The early bazaar traders of Novosibirsk (Russia), the post-2000 middlemen operating in Guangzhou (China) and the ‘new entrepreneurs’ who have emerged at home in Kyrgyzstan around 2015. The book advocates translocality as an innovative concept to better understand the dialectic of mobility and emplacement in contemporary livelihoods and value chains that tra...
