This week in Deep Cuts we shine light on Maxime Boutry’s diverse work. The practicing anthropologist and scholar has studied Moken, Rohingya, land dynamics in places as varied as the dry zone and the Delta with his work with GRET, and has also done some of the most interesting research on urban precarity in Yangon that we have seen (and all of this is just his English language research; he writes in French too!). We feature two of his chapters, the first that deconstructs Bama-ness, especially outside of “Bama” spaces (an absolute hidden gem), the second on auto-construction on the peripheries of Yangon.

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