This week in DC we feature an entire journal! Some of you will roll your eyes – of course you’ve known about Suvannabhumi for years. Nonetheless, many do not know about it, and given recent discussions about decolonization of SEA (where decolonization is both a metaphor and material – which is actually repetitive, because metaphors are themselves material*), it seems relevant to feature a journal that publishes lots of Myanmar academics, and feature their work.

Included here are just some of the contributions by Burmese scholars in recent years: Kyaw Minn Htin’s study on the Marma, what he identifies as a “de-Arakanized” Chittagong Hill Tract Community; Nanda Hmun on the role of women in Bagan sculpture; Zaw Lynn Aung’s study of the mahasammata model of Kingship in the Mrauk U period; and Myo Oo on conceptions of time, and how they intersected historically with social class and Buddhist traditions. Let this also act as a chance to hype future features of Myo Oo (on Anyatha) and KMT (on Rakhine identity) in coming weeks.

see here for PDFs.

[* h/t to Ros Morris by way of Geoff Myint ]