Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon

by Judith Beyer

Book Overview

In this first anthropological study of Muslim and Hindu lives in urban Myanmar today, Judith Beyer develops the concept of "we-formation" to demonstrate that individuals are always more than members of wider groups. "We-formation" complements her rich political, legal, and historical analysis of "community," a term used by Beyer's interlocutors themselves, even as it reinforces ethno-religious stereotypes and their own minority status. The book also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824898060
• ISBN13: 9780824898069
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"