The Traffic in Hierarchy : : Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma / / Ward Keeler.
Until its recent political thaw, Burma was closed to most foreign researchers, and fieldwork-based research was rare. In The Traffic in Hierarchy, one of the few such works to appear in recent years, author Ward Keeler combines close ethnographic attention to life in a Buddhist monastery with a broa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Hierarchy in Traffic
- Chapter One. Everyday Forms of Hierarchical Observance
- Chapter Two. A Description of the Shweigyin Monastery
- Chapter Three. Discretionary Attachments: Monks and Their Social Relations
- Chapter Four. Taking Dumont to Southeast Asia
- Chapter Five. Hierarchical Habits
- Chapter Six. Gaining Access to Power
- Chapter Seven. Meditation
- Chapter Eight. Masculinity
- Chapter Nine. Masculinity's Others: Women, Nuns, and Trans Women
- Chapter Ten. Taking Autonomy and Attachment Further Afield
- Notes
- References
- Index