Traffic in Hierarchy
Traffic in Hierarchy Until its recent political thaw, Burma was closed to most foreign researchers, and fieldwork-based research was rare. The result is a thought-provoking analysis of Burmese social…
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Traffic in Hierarchy
Until its recent political thaw, Burma was closed to most foreign researchers, and fieldwork-based research was rare. The result is a thought-provoking analysis of Burmese social relations both within and beyond a monastery's walls.Keeler shows that the roles individuals choose in Burman society entail inevitable trade-offs in privileges and prestige. In The Traffic in Hierarchy, one of the few such works to appear in recent years, author Ward Keeler combines close ethnographic attention to life in a Buddhist monastery with a broad analysis of Burman gender ideology.
Alternatively, a man can become a head of household. A man who becomes a monk gives up some social opportunities but takes on others and gains great respect. Or he can choose to take on a feminine gender identity--to the derision of many but not necessarily his social exclusion.
A woman, by contrast, is expected to
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