Accessing and navigating healthcare: A scoping review of the experiences of women of refugee background from Myanmar. [PDF]
Health Soc Care Community, 2022 Abstract Despite well‐documented health problems, healthcare access by women of refugee background in resettlement countries is typically poor. Suggested reasons include inadequate health literacy and resettlement challenges. A scoping review to explore the experiences of women of refugee background from Myanmar accessing and navigating healthcare was ...
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India beyond the Ganges: Defining Arakanese Buddhism in Persianate colonial Bengal [PDF]
Indian Economic and Social History Review, 2019 In the late eighteenth century a Scotsman returned from Bengal with one of the largest private libraries of Persian texts collected in the Subcontinent. Among those manuscripts were several volumes of translations of Arakanese and Pali texts into Persian, as well as quasi ethnographic accounts on Buddhism as it was practiced in what is seen today as ...
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Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World. Edited by Iselin Frydenlund and Michael JerrysonMyanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis: Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear. By John Clifford Holt [PDF]
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2021 Niklas Foxeus
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The secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay, Myanmar: Dhamma‐youns and wards
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 337-349, December 2022., 2022 This article examines the entangled secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay as dynamic, people‐based and relational processes that are centred in dhamma‐youns (dhamma halls) which work within and across administrative ward boundaries.
Jayde Lin Roberts
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Amitav Ghosh and the ‘Pizza-Effect’: Re-discovering Shared Littoral Literature and Heritage [PDF]
HyperCultura, 2021 This article focuses on two cartographically estranged places which continue to be historically concomitant—lower deltaic Bengal and Burma. The aim of the paper is to do a comparative ‘pizza effect’ study using contemporary Anglophone writings by Amitav ...
Amrita DasGupta, Tathagata Dutta
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L’expression du particularisme arakanais dans la Birmanie contemporaine
Moussons, 2005 In Arakan, an ancient independent Buddhist kingdom and one of the seven states of modern Burma, the town of Mrauk U, the capital city of the last Arakanese dynasty (1430-1785), has undergone important changes under the military regime in power since 1988,
Alexandra de Mersan
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L’arakanisation d’Arakan : les racines d’un nouvel exode ?
L'Espace Politique, 2015 The conflict opposing Buddhist and Muslim populations in Rakhine State (Arakan) since June 2012 is different from the previous ones for its national knock-on effects and a generalization of the confrontations to the Muslim populations of Myanmar ...
Maxime Boutry
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Moussons, 2010 In Arakan, sickness-related conceptions and therapeutic practices issuing from Theravada Buddhism, astrology, spirits cult and medicine form a meaningful and hierarchical whole.
Céline Coderey
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Comment les musulmans d’Arakan sont-ils devenus étrangers à l’Arakan ?
Moussons, 2016 In June 2012 as Burma (or Myanmar) launched into its political transition, the west of the country (the State of Arakan or Rakhine State) became embroiled in an outbreak of murderous violence between Muslim and Buddhist population groups.
Alexandra de Mersan
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