Cost of Trinkets: A Growing Archaeological Looting Network Between Thailand and Myanmar
9 Minutes To ReadPhacharaphorn Phanomvan digs into cross-border antiquities-smuggling practices.
Islam and the State in Myanmar: Muslim-Buddhist Relations and the Politics of Belonging edited by Melissa Crouch, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2016, Pages 345.
6 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Melissa Crouch’s edited volume on Muslims in Myanmar.
The Poet Parliament – an artistic administration ready to deliver?
8 Minutes To ReadMatt Grace reviews developments in the arts.
Rhythms of Folk Traditions
9 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee considers Myanmar’s artistic heritage in regional context.
Buddhism, Politics, and Political Thought in Myanmar by Matthew J. Walton, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2017. 226 pages.
6 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind reviews a new book on Buddhism and political thought by Matthew J. Walton.
Film Academy Awards, Myanmar Idol, and the Peace Process in Myanmar
11 Minutes To ReadSai Latt challenges conventional wisdom on Myanmar’s political divides.
Thein Pe of the Rangoon Turf Club: tracking days down memory lane.
10 Minutes To Read
Htay Htay Win tracks down memories of her jockey grandfather, Thein Pe of the Rangoon Turf Club.
Architectural Guide Yangon by Ben Bansal, Elliott Fox and Manuel Oka, DOM Publishers, Berlin, 2015, 399 pages.
5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee loses herself in the Architectural Guide Yangon.
Myanmar’s Mountain and Maritime Borderscapes – Local Practices, Boundary-Making and Figured Worlds edited by Su-Ann Oh, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, 2016, 398 pages.
9 Minutes To Read
War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994-2011, edited by Mandy Sadan, NIAS Press, Copenhagen. 2016. 540 pages.
6 Minutes To ReadCourtney T. Wittekind reflects on the nuanced framing of war and peace offered by a new edited volume.
