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288 gia for the countryside, the pride in things Burmese, the emphasis on the long past, and the self-congratulation of a people carrying on a distinctive culture and way of life whose chief ornaments are Buddhism, the equalitarian ethic, the high status of women, and the absence of grinding poverty. But this is only, of course, part of the Burmese reality; the high homicide rate, the witchcraft, the fragile sense of confidence in handling the challenges of modernization, the decaying economy under the Burmese road to socialism are remarkable by the absence of mention. A serious sense of self-criticism, an understanding of the problems besetting Burma are absent. Perhaps a more balanced view is the task of social science and not the product of selective pre- sentations of self-images. The message is clear: neither an alien view of Burma, nor a self-view of it is adequate to a realistic, sensitive, human and systematic understanding of the Burmese. Some combination of insider-outsider, of social scientists and men of letters will cumulate into a depiction of a Burmese world that approximates the lived-in space of Burmese as well as the forces that shape and define that world. University of Chicago
Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1972
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