Rethinking Community in Myanmar

Rethinking Community in Myanmar Judith Beyer Primary Author mixed material bibliography Denmark Nias Press 2023 monographic en English 307p Striking new insights into understanding community in Myanmar In this first anthropological study of Muslim and Hindu lives in urban Myanmar today, 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 offers an interpretation of the dynamics of resistance to the attempted military coup of 2021. Judith Beyer is Professor of Social and Political Anthropology at the University of Konstanz. She specializes in legal and political anthropology and has long-term ethnographic field experience in both Southeast Asia and Central Asia. In Myanmar, her research focuses on ethno-religious minorities, community, activism, statelessness and the state. NONE9788776943271 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 959.1 BEY Ret 9097 C2O library & collabtive 959.1 BEY Ret images_%2810%29.jpg.jpg 7781 2025-11-30 13:58:54 2025-11-30 14:04:29 machine generated