As the Deep Cuts series crosses the half-year threshold, we wanted to clarify its goals. Because its texts emerge from the Burma Studies reading history and intellectual interests of one person, they are inevitably partial. Deep Cuts has featured a lot more anthropology than art history, for instance. This runs the risk of framing what Burma Studies “is” or should be, at least to the limited extent of what is featured on this website. This is not the intention. And so this note is to encourage contributions from the community that would diversify the cuts. Please send to (soceep [at] nus.edu.sg) your ideas, hopefully with a short blurb describing the text and why it’s important, and let us know if you would like your name featured or not.

see here for the cuts, which will go to a bi-weekly format from now on.