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Abstract:
"Partially rooted in British colonial ethnology and administration, the ethnic categories of the 2014 Myanmar census have attracted controversy, particularly from representatives of non-Burman political organizations. The categories themselves, as well as the bureaucratic exercise of the census, have a complex genealogy which offers considerable insight into understanding the contemporary situation. Drawing from Hirschman?s theory that the study of measurements of ethnicity is a unique resource for understanding the meaning of ethnicity in a society, this article discusses the controversy surrounding the 2014 census, and how some census-related issues have been crucially framed by bureaucratic structures that came before...."
Keywords:
Myanmar - Burma - census - ethnicity - colonialism - bureaucracy
Source/publisher:
Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney
Date of Publication:
2015-01-28
Date of entry:
2015-03-24
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- Individual Documents
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English
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