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Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies: Theme 5, Women, gender relations, and development in Thai society
Author: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies
Author: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies: Theme 2, Cultural crisis and the Thai capitalist transformation
Author: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies: Theme 4, Traditions and changes at local
Author: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies: Theme 8, The state of Thai studies : a critical reassessment (2 v.)
Author: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies: Theme 3, Family, community, and sexual sub-cultures in the AIDS era
Author: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies
Author: The Thiri Rama
Author: Dawn F. RooneyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315313952
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Thiri Rama – or the Great Rama – was written for court performance and is the only known illustrated version of the Ramayana story in Myanmar. Based on palm-leaf manuscripts and scenes carved on over 300 sandstone plaques at a mid-nineteenth-century Buddhist pagoda west of Mandalay in Myanmar, this book presents an original translation of the Thiri Rama rendered in prose. The volume also includes essays on the history and tradition of the Ramayana in Myanmar as well as the cultural context in which the play was performed. It contains many helpful resources, incorporating a glossary and a list of characters and their corresponding personae in Valmiki’s Ramayana. With over 250 fascinating visuals and core text contributions by distinguished Burmese scholars, U Thaw Kaung, Tin Maung Kyi, and U Aung Thwin, this book will greatly interest scholars and researchers of South and Southeast Asian culture, literary forms, epics, art and art history, theatre and performance studies, religion, especially those concerned with Hinduism, as well as folklorists.
Materialising Exile
Author: Sandra DudleyPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845458095
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Focusing on the highly diverse Karenni refugee population living in camps on the Thai-Burma border, this innovative book explores materiality, embodiment, memory, imagination, and identity among refugees, providing new and important ways of understanding how refugees make sense of experience, self, and other. It examines how and to what ends refugees perceive, represent, manipulate, use as metaphor, and otherwise engage with material objects and spaces, and includes a focus on the real and metaphorical journeys that bring about and perpetuate exile. The combined emphasis on both displacement and materiality, and the analysis of the cultural construction and intersections of exilic objects, spaces, and bodies, are unique in the study of both refugees and material culture. Drawing theoretical influences from phenomenology, aesthetics, and beyond, as well as from refugee studies and anthropology, the author addresses the current lack of theoretical analysis of the material, visual, spatial, and embodied aspects of forced migration, providing a fundamentally interlinked analysis of enforced exile and materiality.
Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia
Author: Gwyn CampbellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135759162
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The abolition of slavery in and around the Western Indian Ocean have been little studied. This collection examines the meaning of slavery and its abolition in relation to specific indigenous societies and to Islam, a religion that embraced the entire region, and draws comparisons between similar developments in the Atlantic system. Case studies include South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Benadir Coast, Arabia, the Persian Gulf and India. This volume marks an important new development in the study of slavery and its abolition in general, and an original approach to the history of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Asia regions.