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L’arakanisation d’Arakan : les racines d’un nouvel exode ?
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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The secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay, Myanmar: Dhamma‐youns and wards
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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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 ...
Georgia Griffin +4 more
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Amitav Ghosh and the ‘Pizza-Effect’: Re-discovering Shared Littoral Literature and Heritage [PDF]
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
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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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 ?
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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Learning that I was working on Arakanese tutelary divinities, the historian Jacques Leider kindly introduced me to an ancient manuscript in the Indochinese collection (Fonds Indochinois) of the National Library in Paris.
Alexandra de Mersan
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Die Rohingyas: Konstruktion, De-Konstruktion und Re-Konstruktion einer ethnisch-religiösen Identität [The Rohingyas in Myanmar: Construction, De-construction and Re-construction of an Ethnic Identity] [PDF]
Die Rohingyas, die im Staat Rakhine (Arakan) im Westen des heutigen Myanmar leben, bilden eine große geschlossene muslimische Bevölkerungsgruppe an der Grenze zu Bangladesh.
Hans-Bernd Zöllner
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