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Author Sadan, Mandy, author

Title Being and becoming Kachin : histories beyond the state in the borderworlds of Burma / by Mandy Sadan
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford university press, 2013
Oxford : Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2013

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 MELB  959.1052 Sad/Bab  AVAILABLE
 MELB  959.1052 Sad/Bab  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 512 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Series A British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph
British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Global histories, local exclusions -- 2.Ritual, ideology and politics -- 3.Boundaries and borders -- 4.Militarisation and the contest of modernities -- 5.War and independence -- 6.Dimokrasi Prat to Rawt Malan! -- 7.Violence -- 8.Virtue -- 9.Transnational symbols in national spaces: the ideological transformation of the manau
Summary Ethnic conflict has troubled the Kachin region of Burma since 1961. The area is of increasing contemporary interest because it borders India and China and it has the potential to affect Burma's reintegration into mainstream geopolitics. The book examines the conflict within a historical context of marginalisation in the region
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-496) and index
Subject Ethnic conflict -- Burma -- History -- 20th century.
Kachin (Asian people) -- History.
Ethnic relations -- Burma -- History -- 20th century.
Kachin (Asian people) -- Burma.
SUBJECT Myanmar -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004261
Myanmar -- History -- 1962-1988. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009008447
Myanmar -- History -- 1988- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009008448
Author British Academy, issuing body
LC no. 2013387519
ISBN 9780197265550 (hardback)