Prof. Beyer’s book on Myanmar now open access
Prof. Judith Beyer’s monograph "Rethinking community in Myanmar" is now free to download from the University of Hawai’i Press page.
In this first anthropological study of Muslim and Hindu lives in urban Myanmar today, Judith Beyer develops the concept of “we-formation” to demonstrate that individuals are always more than members of wider groups. “We-formation” complements her rich political, legal, and historical analysis of “community,” a term used by Beyer’s interlocutors themselves, even as it reinforces ethno-religious stereotypes and their own minority status. The book also offers an interpretation of the dynamics of resistance to the attempted military coup of 2021. The book is now open access and can be downloaded here