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Book Synopsis The Karen Bronze Drums of Burma by : Richard M. Cooler
Download or read book The Karen Bronze Drums of Burma written by Richard M. Cooler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The persistence of ritualized hopes and beliefs expressed visually on Karen bronze drums is presented through an extended analysis of the motifs on the tympani of 370 drums. Numerical, configurational, and cultural arguments are supported by copious tables and illustrations.
Book Synopsis The Karen Bronze Drums of Burma by : Richard Cooler
Download or read book The Karen Bronze Drums of Burma written by Richard Cooler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The persistence of ritualized hopes and beliefs expressed visually on Karen bronze drums is presented through an extended analysis of the motifs on the tympani of 370 drums. Numerical, configurational, and cultural arguments are supported by copious tables and illustrations.
Book Synopsis Transnationalism in Ancient and Medieval Societies by : Michael C. Howard
Download or read book Transnationalism in Ancient and Medieval Societies written by Michael C. Howard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While scholars have long documented the migration of people in ancient and medieval times, they have paid less attention to those who traveled across borders with some regularity. This study of early transnational relations explores the routine interaction of people across the boundaries of empires, tribal confederacies, kingdoms, and city-states, paying particular attention to the role of long-distance trade along the Silk Road and maritime trade routes. It examines the obstacles voyagers faced, including limited travel and communication capabilities, relatively poor geographical knowledge, and the dangers of a fragmented and shifting political landscape, and offers profiles of better-known transnational elites such as the Hellenic scholar Herodotus and the Venetian merchant Marco Polo, as well lesser known servants, merchants, and sailors. By revealing the important political, economic, and cultural role cross-border trade and travel played in ancient society, this work demonstrates that transnationalism is not unique to modern times. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Book Synopsis The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma, 1824-1994 by : Raymond L. Bryant
Download or read book The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma, 1824-1994 written by Raymond L. Bryant and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines how the Burmese state has sought to control the country's forest activities, and the ways in which groups relying on the forest for their livelihood (loggers, transnational corporations, cultivators, peasants) have fought such control.
Book Synopsis The Karen People of Burma by : Harry Ignatius Marshall
Download or read book The Karen People of Burma written by Harry Ignatius Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology by : Harry Ignatius Marshall
Download or read book The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology written by Harry Ignatius Marshall and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology" describes the history, geography, and traditions of the Karen, a group of Indo-Chinese tribes living principally in Burma. The author of this book, Reverend Harry Ignatius Marshall, who worked as a missionary in the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, prepared an excellent and comprehensive review. Its historical value is still topical in our times.
Book Synopsis The Karen People of Burma by : Harry Ignatius Marshall
Download or read book The Karen People of Burma written by Harry Ignatius Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Science of Percussion Instruments by : Thomas D Rossing
Download or read book Science of Percussion Instruments written by Thomas D Rossing and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000-09-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percussion instruments may be our oldest musical instruments, but only recently have they become the subject of extensive scientific study. This book focuses on how percussion instruments vibrate and produce sound and how these sounds are perceived by listeners.
Book Synopsis Report of the Superintendent, Archæological Survey, Burma by : Archaeological Survey of India
Download or read book Report of the Superintendent, Archæological Survey, Burma written by Archaeological Survey of India and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report on Archaeological Work in Burma by : Burma Archaeological Department
Download or read book Report on Archaeological Work in Burma written by Burma Archaeological Department and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Frank Joseph Shulman Publisher :Lanham, MD : University Press of America ; Washington, D.C., USA : Wilson Center ISBN 13 : Total Pages :280 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Burma written by Frank Joseph Shulman and published by Lanham, MD : University Press of America ; Washington, D.C., USA : Wilson Center. This book was released on 1986 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published with the Asia program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Book Synopsis The Music and Dance of the World's Religions by : E. Rust
Download or read book The Music and Dance of the World's Religions written by E. Rust and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-08-23 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the world-wide association of music and dance with religion, this is the first full-length study of the subject from a global perspective. The work consists of 3,816 references divided among 37 chapters. It covers tribal, regional, and global religions and such subjects as shamanism, liturgical dance, healing, and the relationship of music, mathematics, and mysticism. The referenced materials display such diverse approaches as analysis of music and dance, description of context, direct experience, observation, and speculation. The references address topics from such disciplines as sociology, anthropology, history, linguistics, musicology, ethnomusicology, theology, medicine, semiotics, and computer technology. Chapter 1 consists of general references to religious music and dance. The remaining 36 chapters are organized according to major geographical areas. Most chapters begin with general reference works and bibliographies, then continue with topics specific to the region or religion. This book will be of use to anyone with an interest in music, dance, religion, or culture.
Book Synopsis Eclectic Collecting by : Alexandra Green
Download or read book Eclectic Collecting written by Alexandra Green and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of Burmese art housed at the Denison Museum in Granville, Ohio, USA, includes more than 1,500 objects dating from the late first millennium AD through the twentieth century. While particularly strong on textiles originating with minority groups in Burma, it also showcases Buddha images, lacquer objects, works on paper, manuscripts, wood carvings, and pieces made from bronze, silver, and ivory. Eclectic Collecting is both a catalogue of the collection and a scholarly examination of Burmese art.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar) by : Donald M. Seekins
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar) written by Donald M. Seekins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burma (Myanmar) is a Southeast Asian country that is emerging from crisis after more than a half century of hard-line military rule and cultural, diplomatic and economic isolation. With the dissolution of its military regime, the State Peace and Development Council, in 2011, a formally civilian but military-dominated constitutional government was inaugurated. By 2012, Burma’s president, retired General Thein Sein, had established a working relationship with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the country’s pro-democracy movement since 1988, and after a 2012 by-election she and members of her opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), entered the new Union Parliament as legislators. However, even with the election victory of Daw Suu Kyi and the NLD in the General Election of November 2015, Burma faces daunting challenges: it is still one of the poorest countries in Southeast, fissured by longstanding ethnic conflicts that have made a nationwide peace agreement elusive and its people’s security and the environment are threatened by foreign economic exploitation. Religious discord is also widely evident, as Buddhist militants instigate violence against the country’s religious minorities, especially Muslims. Today Burma’s prospects are the most hopeful they have been for over half a century, as the country takes steps along the road to a more open society and economy. This edition of the Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar) encompasses not only current developments, but also Burma’s over 1,500 years-old recorded history and the most important features of its cultures, ethnicity, religions, society and economy. This is done through achronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Book Synopsis The Art and Architecture of Thailand by : Hiram Woodward
Download or read book The Art and Architecture of Thailand written by Hiram Woodward and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever comprehensive survey work on the art and architecture of Thailand from the earliest times until the establishment of the Thai-speaking kingdoms. A systematic and elucidating history of pre-fourteenth-century Thailand in a volume indispensable to historians of art, religion, politics, and society.
Download or read book Ethnomusicology written by Helen Myers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementing Ethnomusicology: An Introduction, this volume of studies, written by world-acknowledged authorities, places the subject of ethnomusicology in historical and geographical perspective. Part I deals with the intellectual trends that contributed to the birth of the discipline in the period before World War II. Organized by national schools of scholarship, the influence of 19th-century anthropological theories on the new field of "comparative musicology" is described. In the second half of the book, regional experts provide detailed reviews by geographical areas of the current state of ethnomusicological research.
Book Synopsis The Mists of Rāmañña by : Michael A. Aung-Thwin
Download or read book The Mists of Rāmañña written by Michael A. Aung-Thwin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long accepted the belief that a Theravada Buddhist Mon kingdom, Rāmaññadesa, flourished in coastal Lower Burma until it was conquered in 1057 by King Aniruddha of Pagan—which then became, in essence, the new custodian and repository of Mon culture in the Upper Burmese interior. This scenario, which Aung-Thwin calls the "Mon Paradigm," has circumscribed much of the scholarship on early Burma and significantly shaped the history of Southeast Asia for more than a century. Now, in a masterful reassessment of Burmese history, Michael Aung-Thwin reexamines the original contemporary accounts and sources without finding any evidence of an early Theravada Mon polity or a conquest by Aniruddha. The paradigm, he finds, cannot be sustained. How, when, and why did the Mon Paradigm emerge? Aung-Thwin meticulously traces the paradigm's creation to the merging of two temporally, causally, and contextually unrelated Mon and Burmese narratives, which were later synthesized in English by colonial officials and scholars. Thus there was no single originating source, only a late and mistaken conflation of sources. The conceptual, methodological, and empirical ramifications of these findings are significant. The prevalent view that state-formation began in the maritime regions of Southeast Asia with trade and commerce rather than in the interior with agriculture must now be reassessed. In addition, a more rigorous look at the actual scope and impact of a romanticized Mon culture in the region is required. Other issues important to the field of early Burma and Southeast Asian studies, including the process of "Indianization," the characterization of "classical" states, and the advent and spread of Theravada Buddhism, are also directly affected by Aung-Thwin’s work. Finally, it provides a geo-political, cultural, and economic alternative to what has become an ethnic interpretation of Burma’s history. An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched, a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open-access version of this book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which means that the work may be freely downloaded and shared for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Derivative works and commercial uses require permission from the publisher.
