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| Title: | | Burma (Myanmar) since the 1988 uprising: a select bibliography |
| Date of publication: | | 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...
FOREWORD...
INTRODUCTION:
Burma bibliographies before
1988;
Burma bibliographies since 1988;
Content and methodology...
THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE:
General;
Photography...
GUIDEBOOKS AND DESCRIPTIONS:
General;
Rangoon (Yangon) and Mandalay;
Pagan (Bagan);
Naypyidaw (Nay Pyi Taw)...
TRAVELLERS’ ACCOUNTS:
General;
Pre-20th century;
20th and 21st century...
HISTORY:
General;
Pre-20th century;
20th and 21st century;
Second World War...
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, BIOGRAPHIES AND
MEMOIRS:
Colonial era;
Post-independence period;
Aung San Suu Kyi...
POPULATION AND ETHNIC MINORITIES:
Population;
Ethnic minorities...
RELIGIONS, RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES
AND RELIGIOUS SITES...
SOCIETY AND HEALTH...
WOMEN...
MIGRANTS, REFUGEES AND DISPLACED
PEOPLE...
NARCOTICS...
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT:
Official publications;
General;
Political change and transition
studies...
HUMAN RIGHTS:
INTERNATIONAL AID...
FOREIGN RELATIONS...
DEFENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY...
LAW AND CONSTITUTIONS...
ECONOMY, INDUSTRY AND TRADE...
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND
FISHERIES...
ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL HISTORY...
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE:
Language;
Literature...
CULTURE, ARTS AND CRAFTS...
RECREATION AND HOBBIES...
CUISINE...
BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND RESEARCH
GUIDES...
APPENDIX:
Books to read before visiting
Burma...
INDEX OF NAMES |
| Author/creator: | | Andrew Selth |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Griffith Asia Institute |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1MB-OBL version; 2.68MB-original) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/459593/Burma-Bibliography-for-web.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 08 October 2012 |
|
| Title: | | REVIEWS AND NOTES, SBBR 4.2 |
| Date of publication: | | September 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | Gerry Abbott: Rod(g)ers: A Brief Addendum...
Yang Li: The House of Yang: Guardians of an Unknown Frontier (William Clarence Smith)...
Monique Skidmore: Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear (Alicia Turner)...
Emma Larkin, Secret Histories: Finding Orwell in a Burmese Teashop (Atsuko Naono)...
Russ Christensen & Sann Kyaw, The Pa-O: Rebels and Refugees (Gerry Abbott) |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research 4.2 (Autumn 2006) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (174K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://web.archive.org/web/20071010121234/web.soas.ac.uk/burma/4_2.htm |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | Dissertation abstracts, seminars and conferences listed in SBBR Vol. 2, No. 2, Autumn 2004 |
| Date of publication: | | 20 September 2004 |
| Description/subject: | | GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS, LOCAL CONCEPTIONS: HUMAN
RIGHTS AND THE POLITICS OF COMMUNICATION AMONG
THE BURMESE OPPOSITION-IN-EXILE (MYANMAR):
Brooten, Lisa Booth,
Ohio University, 2003... SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BURMA AND THE DUTCH EAST
INDIA COMPANY, 1634-1680,
Wil O. Dijk,
Leiden University, 2004... DISPLACEMENT & IDENTITY: KARENNI REFUGEES IN
THAILAND,
Sandra Dudley
University of Oxford, 2000... |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 2, No. 2, Autumn 2004 |
| Format/size: | | pdf (24K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://web.archive.org/web/20070612024156/web.soas.ac.uk/burma/2_2.htm |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 September 2004 |
|
| Title: | | International Institute for Asian Studies: "Burmese Heritage" |
| Date of publication: | | October 2001 |
| Description/subject: | | Issue 25 of the Institute's newsletter contains a section called "Burmese Heritage", a collection of short papers on Burma. In addition to an introduction and interview with the Guest Editor, Stephan van Galen, the titles are: Rediscovering Arakan" by Jacques P. Leider; "Pagan and Early Burma" by Tilman Frasch; "The Cult of the Thirty-Seven Lords" by Benedicte Brac de la Perriere; "Historical Geography of Burma" by Janice Stargardt; "Pre-colonial Burmese Law: Conical hat and shoulder bag" by Andrew Huxley; and "Burmese Language Studies in France" by Marie-Helene Cardinaud. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.iias.nl/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Petit repertoire des etudes birmanes en France |
| Date of publication: | | March 2001 |
| Description/subject: | | "Ce dossier n'a pas pour objet de faire un point general sur l'etat des recherches sur la Birmanie (Union du Myanmar). Une excellente synthese, qui depasse en outre le cadre francais, a recemment ete proposee par Pierre Pichard et Francois Robinne en introduction au volume Etudes birmanes en hommage a Denise Bernot (Paris : Presses de l'Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient, 1998). Ce volume comporte egalement une bibliographie indicative des ouvrages et articles concernant la Birmanie parus entre 1985 et 1998..."
Denise Bernot (linguistique, Professeur emerite) | Benedicte Brac de la Perriere (ethnologie, CNRS) | Anne-Cecile Brajon (etudes indiennes, Universite Paris III) | Michel Bruneau (geographie, CNRS) | Aurore candier (histoire, EPHE) | Marie-Helene Cardinaud (birman, Inalco) | Anne-May Chew (histoire de l'art/archeologie, Paris III) | Cristina Cramerotti (conservateur, Inalco) | Karine Delaye (histoire, EHESS) | Alexandra de Mersan (ethnologie, EHESS) | William Lang Dessaint (ethnologie, Professeur) | Emmanuel Guillon (etudes mones, Inalco) | Jacques Ivanoff (ethnologie, CNRS) | Jacques Leider (histoire, Inalco) | Francois L'Homer (birman, Inalco) | Helene Nut (histoire, Inalco) | Sylvie Paquet (histoire, CNRS) | Pierre Pichard (EFEO) | William Pruitt (linguistique/sciences religieuses, Pali Text Society) | Catherine Raymond (histoire de l'art/archeologie, Inalco) | Francois Robinne (CNRS) | Guillaume Rozenberg (ethnologie, EHESS) | Alice Vittrant (sciences du langage, Paris VIII) | Marie Yin Yin Myint (birman, Inalco) |
| Author/creator: | | Guillaume Rozenberg |
| Language: | | Francais, French |
| Source/publisher: | | L'Association francaise pour la recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est (AFRASE) - Dossier (lettre no. 53, mars 2001) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 May 2005 |
|
| Title: | | Burma: A Special Supplement |
| Date of publication: | | February 1958 |
| Description/subject: | | A look back at a 70-page supplement on Burma—covering arts, culture, politics, and more—written mostly by Burmese and published by The Atlantic in 1958....
Burma
An introduction
by The Honorable U Kyaw Nyein, Deputy Prime Minister of the Union of Burma...
Building a Nation
Goals for the future
by The Honorable U Thant...
Burma's Socialist Democracy
Some problems of practical politics
by U Law Yone...
Continuity in Burma
The survival of historic forces
by U Kyaw Thet...
People of the Golden Land
Burmese character and customs
by Daw Mi Mi Khaing...
Burmese Names
A guide
by Daw Mi Mi Khaing...
The Public Weal
Excerpts from speeches by the honorable U Nu, Prime Minister of the Union of Burma
by Daw Mi Mi Khaing...
The Women of Burma
A tradition of hard work and independence
by Daw Mya Sein...
Burmese Music
A partnership in melodic sounds
by U Khin Zaw...
Burmese Entertainment
Drama, dance, and film
by U Myo Min...
The Early Art of Burma
Surviving traditions from pagan and Mandalay
by Thaw Ka...
Contemporary Burmese Art
A modern perspective
by U Thein Han...
Burma's Economy
An eye toward growth
by U Tun Thin...
Indians and Chinese in Burma
Notes on immigration
by U Myay Kyaw...
Modern Burmese Literature
Its background in the independence movement
by U On Pe...
The Burmese Language
An overview
by U Wun...
The Meaning of Buddhism
Fundamental principles of the Theravada doctrine
by Bhikkhu U Thittila...
Folk Elements in Burmese Buddhism
Alchemy, spirits, and ancient rituals
by Maung Htin Aung...
The Concept of Neutralism
What lies behind Burma's foreign policy
by James Barrington...
The Concept of Neutralism
What lies behind Burma's foreign policy
by James Barrington...
The 13-Carat Diamond
A story
by Daw Khin Myo Chit...
The Prince of the Prison
A story
by Dagon Shwe Hmyar. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | The Atlantic |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 12 November 2008 |
|
| Title: | | "The Irrawaddy" Research Pages |
| Description/subject: | | Background Biographies;
Bomb Blasts in Burma—A Chronology;
Burma Diplomatic Missions;
Burma's Regional Commanders;
CCB forms Investigation Body to investigate money laundering offenses;
Cabinet of Burma;
Chronology of Burma's Laws Restricting Freedom of Opinion, Expression and the Press;
Chronology of Chinese-Burmese Relations;
Chronology of the Press in Burma;
Committee Representing the People's Parliament [CRPP];
Dialogue between Military Government and NLD;
Diplomatic Trips;
Foreign Companies Withdrawn from Burma;
Foreign Embassies to Burma;
Foreign Investment in Burma;
Full List of the Prisoners - Page1;
List of Cease-fire Agreements with the Junta;
List of Journalists, Authors and Poets Who Received Sentences After 1988;
List of the Prisoners (Authors);
List of the Prisoners (Death in Custody). |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Research Pages |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Accessasia |
| Description/subject: | | Lots of docs and links, incl. 25 Asia-specialist news sources |
| Language: | | English |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Accessing material on Burma under the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) |
| Description/subject: | | Each US federal agency is responsible for meeting its FOIA responsibilities for its own
records...Material released by the CIA can be found by doing a Google site-specific search for BURMA
site:foia.cia.gov or by using the the site search engine at http://www.foia.cia.gov/search.asp ...
The FOIA pages of other federal agencies can presumably be searched in similar ways. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Online Burma/Myanmar Library |
| Format/size: | | pdf (45K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs07/FOIA.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 August 2009 |
|
| Title: | | Asien House |
| Description/subject: | | SEARCH FO9R "BURMA"....Databases, documentation on Asia and Europe-Asia relations. Magazines from the South. Access to books and articles in the Asiahouse library and sales of German-language books on Burma in the online bookstore... Zentrum für Information und Begegnung. Datenbankrecherche zu Büchern und Aufsätzen zu Burma in der Asienhausbibliothek und Angebot aller deutschsprachigen Titel im Online-Buchladen des Asienhauses. There's also an unmoderated Discussion-group |
| Language: | | English, Deutsch, German |
| Source/publisher: | | Asien House |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.asienhaus.de/index.php |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Association for Asian Studies, Inc. |
| Description/subject: | | 35 hits for "Burma OR Myanmar", most of which were abstracts of papers delivered at the AAAS meetings. Good for subscription forms for membership and publications, but no full-text documents on site so far as I could see (Alril 2008). $75 individual annual subscription for the online Bibliography of Asian Studies...Many dead links |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Association for Asian Studies |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 November 2010 |
|
| Title: | | Association of Southeast Asian Studies |
| Description/subject: | | ASEASUK is the only national organisation of Southeast Asianists in the UK - and the only such national organisation in Europe. Most members are academics specialising in the region from more than 30 universities and covering a range of disciplines. But there are also postgraduate members of the association as well as members from the business and diplomatic communities. A third of members are based outside the UK.
ASEASUK publishes a newsletter, ASEASUK NEWS, twice a year. Aseasuk News contains information on regional research, conferences, seminars, exhibitions, recent publications of members and an annual directory of postgraduates. Aseasuk News has close links with the European Newsletter of Southeast Asian Studies (Enseas) to which it contributes information on UK Southeast Asianists. It also supplies information for the Leiden-based IIAS Newsletter. Aseasuk News is also distributed to relevant institutions in Britain, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia and New Zealand. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Association of Southeast Asian Studies |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 06 November 2003 |
|
| Title: | | British Library Burmese Collections |
| Description/subject: | | "The Burma [Myanmar] collections consist of approximately 1000 manuscripts from Burma, mostly in Burmese or Pali written in Burmese script, but with a few in Shan, Karen, Kachin, Chin and Mon. The majority of the manuscripts are written on palm leaf, but there are also many paper folding books (parabaik), and texts written on materials such as gold, silver, copper and ivory sheets in the shape of palm leaves. The manuscript collection is particularly strong in historical, legal and grammatical texts and in illustrated materials. The John Murray collection includes several manuscripts from Arakan dating from the 1740s.
The collection also includes about 15,000 printed books from Burma, including examples of early Burmese printing and many rare early editions. About 100 periodical titles are held. The printed collection is strongest in works published between 1870 and 1940. More recently a collection of books, serials and ephemera relating to the Pro-Democracy Movement in Burma has also been acquired (requests to use this restricted collection should be made in writing to the Curator)..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | British Library |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 November 2010 |
|
| Title: | | British Library catalogue |
| Description/subject: | | 4742 hits for "Burma OR Myanmar" (Advanced Search by subject, November 2001). Search by subject (=keyword), title, author/editor, date of publication, ISBN/ISSN, publisher details and organisation. This search displayed its results in batches of 20 in a mysterious order (date of accession?), with no apparent means to sort by date of publication, relevance or alphabetically by author or title. One can, however, specify a year. |
| Language: | | English |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://blpc.bl.uk/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 November 2010 |
|
| Title: | | Burma Archives Project |
| Description/subject: | | Burma Archives Project
"In the early morning on the day of my house arrest [July 20
1989], a hundred or so armed military personnel surrounded my
house. Why they didn't immediately enter the compound I don't
know, but those extra hours gave my wife and other family
members the time to tear up and flush down the toilet every NLD
document, letter and address that was in my office."
Early summer '98 a group of Burma related librarians, scholars,
journalists and activists, together with IISH' Asia Department
launched the Burma Archives Project.
The Burma Archives Project exists to support and actively encourage
the compilation, collection and safe preservation of documentation -in
written and audiovisual form - particularly, but not exclusively, of
material on Burma deriving from the 1980s onwards. A coordinated
effort is needed to seek out material such as posters, photographs,
pamphlets, diaries, correspondence, memoirs, political and ethnic
groups' records. The creation of archives that preserve what has been
called the 'collective memory of development' - material documenting
social movements and social transformation, minority peoples and
other subjects relevant to civil society - is essential to Burma's future
development.
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam
offers a safe archival repository for the preservation of such material.
Members of the Burma Archives Project (academics, librarians, and
independent scholars and researchers) are concerned to use their
contacts and expertise to help locate material and to ensure, on behalf
of the individual or group from which it emanates, that it is
safeguarded. It is planned that, as material accumulates, archival and
conservation training and assistance can be given to those from whom
the material originates, and that research, documentation and
publication projects will develop.
The Burma Archives Newsletter is designed to keep BAP members
in touch with latest developments and to become a forum for the
exchange of ideas and reports on progress.
For more information, please contact the Asia Department at
asia.department@iisg.nl |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | International Institute for Social History, Amsterdaam |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.iisg.nl |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 November 2010 |
|
| Title: | | Burma Research Electronic Discussion Group (BuRe) |
| Description/subject: | | "This list is intended for discussion related to research on Burma/Myanmar. We do not include political discussions per se, only insofar as they relate to the state of research in the field.
You must be signed in and a member of this group to read its archive." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SOAS |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Burma/Myanmar Reference Sources |
| Description/subject: | | Bibligraphic Guides
Collections and New Acquisitions
Electronic Resources
Bibliographic Guides
Southeast Asia Studies at Berkeley
Burma/Myanmar Reference Sources
120 Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley
Compiled by Virginia Jing-yi Shih
With Significant Assistance of Leslie W |
| Author/creator: | | Virginia Jing-yi Shih |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | University of California, Berkeley |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Burma/Myanmar Studies at Cornell |
| Description/subject: | | The Cornell Burma/Myanmar Research Group (CMRG) was
formed in 2003 by several Cornell graduate students and faculty as an
interdisciplinary association to promote Burma/Myanmar studies and
related research at Cornell University. The CMRG website contains links
to useful information on Burma/Myanmar studies and research resources at
Cornell and elsewhere... * cornell university burma/myanmar studies; *
other research centers and institutes; * archives, libraries, and
catalogs; * language and fonts; * dictionaries; * radio and music; *
burma/myanmar news media; * regional news media; * publishers and book
vendors; * varia; * cornell burma/myanmar research group mailing list. |
| Author/creator: | | Christian Lammerts |
| Language: | | English, Burmese |
| Source/publisher: | | Cornell University |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 November 2010 |
|
| Title: | | Burmese Language Resources |
| Description/subject: | | links, resources |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SOAS |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | Cornell University library catalogue |
| Description/subject: | | 4238 hits for "Burma OR Myanmar" - English (November 2001). "Networked Resources" contain a few open-access Burma resources, including OBL, but mostly e-books requiring institutional or individual subscriptions. |
| Language: | | English |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Digital South Asia Library |
| Description/subject: | | The Burma holdings of this digital library cover the period when Burma was part of British India... Major texts (fully searchable) are the "Statistical abstract relating to British India" 1840-1920 in digital book and Excel spreadsheet form and "The Imperial Gazetteer of India" (1909 edition, 24 volumes, each of more than 400 pages)...
Reference Resources:
Scholarly reference books and a link to full text dictionaries at Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (DDSA)...
Bibliographies and Union Lists:
Electronic catalogs and finding aids for dispersed resources and collections...
Images:
Photographs are arranged in databases organized by the original collections...
Indexes:
Includes periodical indexes and document delivery mechanisms...
Maps:
Catalogs of maps and maps themselves, ranging from historical to topographic...
Books and Journals:
This section includes pedagogical books, general scholarly titles, journals and newspapers...
Statistics:
Statistical information from the colonial period through the present, available in a variety of formats...
Other Internet Resources:
A link to SARAI, South Asia Resource Access on the Internet. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | DSAL, (University of Chicago) |
| Format/size: | | html, Excel |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 May 2005 |
|
| Title: | | Documents of Myanmar Socio-Economic History |
| Description/subject: | | "This database contains raw data that we were allowed to record by the holders in Myanmar, and as a result it has not been sorted according to subject. We aimed to select Parabaik relevant to socio-economic history, but documents relating to astrology, medicine, poetry and so on are to be found, because one Parabaik was customarily used to record material on many different topics.
1. Each image consists of two facing pages of a Parabaik manuscript. Therefore, one image may contain several documents, while one longer document may consist of several images.
2. Since images are taken after turning each page in the Parabaik, a particular document may be identified in its context by viewing the images numbered before and after it.
3. In some cases the same image appears twice in order to facilitate detailed comparison of its contents.
4. Some images are reversed and others are revised to make them easier to read. Images that are still difficult to decipher should be adjusted using imaging software.
5. The documents are classified according to their contents. Users can search for documents in the index of these categories..." |
| Language: | | Burmese, English |
| Source/publisher: | | Aichi University in Japan |
| Format/size: | | html, jpg |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 March 2005 |
|
| Title: | | East-West Center |
| Description/subject: | | Search for "Burma" or "Myanmar" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | East-West Center |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Guide to forced migration resources on the Web |
| Description/subject: | | Updated July 2006...
"This guide provides examples of the types of resources that will eventually be included in the RSC portal, or Forced Migration Online. It is not an exhaustive inventory..." Contents: I. Purpose; II. Background and Overviews;
- Starting Points:
- Introduction to the Issues/Definitions of Key Terms;
- Country Profiles;
III. Finding Out about Research:
- Research Collections;
- Directories;
- Indexes/Journal Contents Search Services;
- Bibliographic Tools: Bibliographies, Library Catalogues;
- Alerting Services;
- Lists.
IV. Information Sources (full-text):
- News;
- Journals/Newsletters;
- Annual Reports/Yearbooks;
- International Instruments: Specific Titles, Collections;
- Policy Statements;
- Operational Resources: Operational Guidance Materials,
Principles of Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict ;Management
- Evaluation Reports.
V. Non-Textual Information Sources:
- Statistics/Datasets;
- Multimedia;
VI. Internet Search Tools:
- Subject Guides;
- Search Engines. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Forced Migration Online, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Harvard University Library Catalogue |
| Description/subject: | | More than 4000 results for "Burma OR Myanmar" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Harvard University Library |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Home page) |
| Description/subject: | | Search for Burma OR Myanmar... Some full text documents |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
| Format/size: | | html/pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Myanmar page |
| Description/subject: | | Highly recommended. Well-organised site. In "list of sources used" are most of the main reports from 1995 bearing on IDPs (though the reports from 1995 to 1997 are missing - temporarily, one hopes) and more Burma pages updated June 2001. Go to the home page for links on IDPs, including the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | IDMC |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.internal-displacement.org (Homepage) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden) |
| Description/subject: | | This Netherlands-based institute is the European home of the Southeast Asian Studies WWW Virtual
Library, which includes Burma-related Studies, at http://www.iias.nl/wwwvl/southeas/MM_Asias.html
The Institute's main focus is on parts of Asia with a strong Netherlands connection, i.e. former Dutch colonies, particularly Indonesia. It has a very good online newsletter, with several articles on Burma, notably in "Burmese Heritage" (Issue 25, October 2001). |
| Language: | | English |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | International Institute of Social History, SE Asia Desk |
| Description/subject: | | "Burma.
IISH is developing as a depository of material on the social history of
Burma (Myanmar). It has begun collecting published and unpublished
material on social life, political parties, regional movements and civil
organisations in the country, as well as material on diaspora groups. It
is also collecting material on the various human rights and
pro-democracy campaigns concerning the country which have been
developing from the late 1980s". |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 November 2010 |
|
| Title: | | Journal of Burma Studies (JBS) |
| Description/subject: | | "The Journal of Burma Studies was established in March 1996 through a joint decision by the Southeast Asia Publications program of NIU's Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Burma Studies Foundation, NIU's Center for Burma Studies, and the Burma Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies. Two issues appeared in 1997, and since then, the journal has been published annually". Full text articles accessible online (Vols 1-10) plus abstracts of Vols 11 & 12. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Center for Burma Studies, Northern Illinois University (NIU) |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.niu.edu/burma/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 November 2010 |
|
| Title: | | JURIST: The legal education network |
| Description/subject: | | Myanmar section - most links dead (April 2008) |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | JURIST, University of Pittsburg Scool of Law |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Library of Congress catalogue |
| Description/subject: | | Search for Burma OR Myanmar... 4071 results in November 2001; 10,000 in April 2008... 2458 in July 2012 |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Library of Congress |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | LSE Library catalogue |
| Description/subject: | | Advanced search -- search for Burma OR Myanmar etc. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | London School of Economics |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 April 2010 |
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| Title: | | Maykha Listserv Archive |
| Description/subject: | | The biggest searchable Burma archive on the Internet, I would think - probably more than 100,000 items. One can also link to individual articles, since each has a unique address. From September 1995. |
| Language: | | English and Burmese |
| Source/publisher: | | Maykha |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | National Bureau of Asian Research |
| Description/subject: | | "The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution dedicated to informing and strengthening policy in the Asia-Pacific..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | National Bureau of Asian Research |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | National Library of Australia, Burmese Collection |
| Description/subject: | | "This site provides descriptions of the National Library of Australia's collection of Burmese materials and will progressively provide links to world-wide Burmese-related sources and resource."
Burmese Newspapers;
Accessing the Burmese Collection/Who to Contact;
Burmese Literature - by Author (in Burmese);
Burmese Literature - by Title (in Burmese);
Luce Collection;
Burma WWW Virtual Library;
Online Burma/Myanmar Library;
Burma Digital Library Pilot. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | National Library of Australia |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Official Publications of India |
| Description/subject: | | "Government Documents relating to pre- and post-Independence South Asia"..2416 results for "Burma"..."The Official Publications were most often defined by enumeration of holdings at the British Library's two major collections -- the Oriental and India Office Collections (formerly the India Office Library and Records) and the Official Publications Section of the former British Museum, now integrated into Social Policy Information Service at the British Library -- rather than by abstract statements of principle. Some titles were included under the rubric of "Official" even though they were not published by a government body, apparently because they supported the work of governance in the South Asian subcontinent..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | University of Chicago |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 April 2008 |
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| Title: | | Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) |
| Description/subject: | | "A Title VI-funded project, the Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) offers scholars, students and the interested public more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged and annotated online resources.
Committed to directing users to Asian area content in the humanities and social sciences, the PAIR Project is supported by an impressive complement of area studies scholars, bibliographers and subject selectors based at the libraries of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota and the Ohio State University..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Research Materials for Burmese Studies (Monash) |
| Description/subject: | | NOT ACCESSIBLE, APRIL 2008. INQUIRIES AFOOT...Contents: Research collections on Microfilm and Microfiche; Printed material; Journals.
"In the 1960's the Monash University Library purchased a large collection of microfilmed India Office
Burma-related research material . Most of this material concerns the British goverment in Burma, and in
particular, the period when British Burma was ruled as a province of India. Further major purchases of
research material relating to post-independence Burma have been made, such as the large collection,
Burma 1950-1990 - Newspaper clippings, listed below..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Monash University Library |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research |
| Description/subject: | | Format: Electronic PDF, with a limited number of hard copies for deposit in libraries
Issues: twice yearly. Spring Issue, March 20th, Autumn Issue, September 20th...
Deadlines for submissions: March 5th (Spring), September 1st (Autumn) |
| Author/creator: | | Michael W. Charney (General Editor) |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) |
| Format/size: | | html and pdf |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://web.archive.org/web/20080618233236/http://web.soas.ac.uk/burma/bulletin.htm |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | South Asia Union Catalogue |
| Description/subject: | | 1093 results from a search for "Burma" ...
About SAUC
The South Asia Union Catalogue is a cap-stone program gathering existing bibliographic records and combining them with new cataloguing created under current projects to create a definitive statement on publishing in the South Asian subcontinent. The South Asia Union Catalogue intends to become an historical bibliography comprehensively describing books and periodicals published in South Asia from 1556 through the present. In addition, it will become a union catalogue in which libraries throughout the world owning copies of those imprints will register their holdings. Scholars of South Asia in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world will be given free access to the historical bibliography and the holdings information through the on-line South Asia Union Catalogue.
The four phases of the South Asia Union Catalogue program are defined by the regions of book production. Phase I encompasses south India and Sri Lanka. Publications in the Dravidian languages plus Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language, predominate. Phase II covers eastern South Asia and colonial Burma. Most publications are in eastern Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, and Austro-Asiatic languages. Phase III covers north central South Asia, including Nepal. The majority of publications are central Indo-Aryan and the most frequently occurring languages of imprints are Nepali, Marathi, Gujarati, and Hindi with its dialects. Phase IV ranges over western South Asia and includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northwestern India. Languages of the region include several from the western and eastern Indo-Iranian and western Indo-Aryan families. Most of those languages use the Perso-Arabic script. Much of the bibliographic data currently included has been provided by the Library of Congress, the South Asia Microform Project at the Center for Research Libraries, the Roja Muthiah Research Library, and the University of Chicago Library's Southern Asia Department.
Specimen entries for the South Asia Union Catalogue demonstrate the use of South Asian regional scripts in bibliographic and authority records.
The Sahitya Akademi (New Delhi, India) undertook a pilot project in 1993 for a Catalogue of Nineteenth-Century Indian Publications. Mr. K. C. Dutt's report on that project includes information that was critically important in planning the South Asia Union Catalogue.
The South Asia Union Catalogue is closely affiliated with the Digital South Asia Library and the Center for South Asia Libraries. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | University of Chicago |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 April 2008 |
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| Title: | | Southeast Asia Digital Library |
| Description/subject: | | "The Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL) exists to provide educators and their students, as well as scholars and members of the general public, with a wide variety of materials published or otherwise produced in Southeast Asia. Drawn largely from the collections of universities and individual scholars in this region, the SEADL contains digital facsimiles of books and manuscripts, as well as multimedia materials and searchable indexes of additional Southeast Asian resources. Nations represented in the collection include Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam."...Click on the top bar for the Myanmar section |
| Language: | | English, Burmese |
| Source/publisher: | | Northern Illinois University |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 29 July 2012 |
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Individual Documents
| Title: | | BURMA SINCE THE 1988 UPRISING: A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Date of publication: | | January 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | "...The following list represents a selection of books, monographs and reports devoted to
Burma that has been published (or republished) over the past 20 years. All have been
personally sighted and the relevant details verified. The list is not intended to be
exhaustive — either in its listings or in its coverage — although an attempt has been
made to include publications representing all the main subject areas and political
viewpoints. No specific claims are made regarding the academic or literary merit of any
of those publications listed. Rather, this selection is intended simply to highlight a range
of publications on Burma which have appeared since 1988 and which may be of interest
to both the scholar and general reader. Those who wish to pursue the subjects covered
below are also advised to consult the growing literature on Burma in academic and
professional journals..." |
| Author/creator: | | Andrew Selth |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Andrew Selth |
| Format/size: | | pdf (214K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 27 February 2009 |
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| Title: | | BIBLIOGRAPHIC MATERIALS, NOTICES, AND MAPS |
| Date of publication: | | September 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | Forthcoming Additions to the Bibliography of
Burma/Myanmar Research
In preparation for the yearly bibliographic supplement, readers are
asked to submit recent publications (and old ones) that were not
included in the previous year’s edition. Since there are hundreds of
publications on Burma each year, producing a complete
bibliography would be impossible without the help and cooperation
of the Burma research community. When submitting entries,
please follow the style of the bibliographic supplement.
Please also note, that we do not include encyclopedia articles
in the bibliographic supplement, but we will note them here for the
notice of readers. Further, while we include forthcoming
publications in this list, again for the notice of readers, these
entries will not be included in the supplement until they have
actually been published.
M. W. C. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn 2005 |
| Format/size: | | pdf (304K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://web.archive.org/web/20070930165556/web.soas.ac.uk/burma/3_2.htm |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | Dissertation Abstracts -SBBR 3.2 |
| Date of publication: | | September 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | Literate Networks and the Production of Sgaw and Pwo Karen
Writing in Burma, c.1830-1930 (William Womack); History and Ethnicity in Burma: Cultural Contexts of the
Ethnic Category 'Kachin' in the Colonial and Post-Colonial
State, 1824- 2004
(Mandy Sadan); The State of Vaccination:
British Doctors, Indigenous Cooperation, and the Fight
Against Smallpox in Colonial Burma
(Atsuko Naono) |
| Author/creator: | | William Womack, Mandy Sadan, Atsuko Naono |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn 2005 |
| Format/size: | | pdf (131K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BURMA (MYANMAR) RESEARCH: THE SECONDARY LITERATURE |
| Date of publication: | | December 2004 |
| Description/subject: | | "“The Living’ Bibliography of Burma Studies: The Secondary Literature” was first
published in 2001, with the last update dated 26 April 2003. The SOAS Bulletin of
Burma Research has been expanded to include a special bibliographic supplement
this year, and every other year hereafter, into which additions and corrections to the
bibliography will be incorporated. In the interim, each issue of the SOAS Bulletin
of Burma Research will include a supplemental list, arranged by topic and subtopic.
Readers are encouraged to contact the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research
with information about their publications, hopefully with a reference to a topic and
sub-topic number for each entry, so that new information can be inserted into the
bibliography correctly. References should be submitted in the form followed by the
bibliography, using any of the entries as an example.
Please note that any particular entry will only be included once, regardless
of wider relevance. Eventually, all entries will be cross-listed to indicate other
areas where a particular piece of research might be of use. This list has been
compiled chiefly from direct surveys of the literature with additional information
supplied by the bibliographies of numerous and various sources listed in the
present bibliography. Additional sources include submissions from members of the
BurmaResearch (including the former Earlyburma) and SEAHTP egroups, as well
as public domain listings of personal publications on the internet. Please also note
that newspaper and newsletter articles, encyclopedia articles, conference papers,
and papers in progress will not be included in this list, as most are short pieces or
extracts from already, or eventually to be, published works."
M. W. C. |
| Author/creator: | | Michael Charney |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research Bibliographic Supplement (Winter, 2004) ISSN 1479-8484 |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.1MB), jpg (95K); 264 pages |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs3/Bib.sup.cover..jpg (Cover)
http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/6241/1/Bibliography_of_secondary_literature--2004.pdf
http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs3/Bibliography_of_secondary_literature--2004.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 April 2005 |
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| Title: | | A Preliminary Survey of Burmese Manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland |
| Date of publication: | | 20 March 2004 |
| Description/subject: | | "...The
following compilation is a first attempt to list the existing catalogues for the Burmese
manuscripts in Great Britain and, as Dublin is included, Ireland. The list is mainly
bibliographical, but it is hoped that it will nevertheless help to and perhaps even lead
to a more systematic survey of the manuscripts than was possible here. In this
respect, it does not claim to be complete. The publisher of the Bulletin will however
be delighted to update this list whenever new catalogues or bibliographic references
are brought to his knowledge..." |
| Author/creator: | | Tilman Frasch |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2004, |
| Format/size: | | pdf (27K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://web.archive.org/web/20070612024114/web.soas.ac.uk/burma/vol__ii,_no__1.htm |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | Dissertation abstracts, seminars and conferences listed in SBBR Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2004, |
| Date of publication: | | 20 March 2004 |
| Description/subject: | | DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS:
Kyaw Yin Hlaing. The Politics of State-Business Relations in Post-Colonial Burma...
ORGANIZATIONS:
The Cornell Burma/Myanmar Group...
SEMINARS:
SOAS
Burma Campaign Society;
Britain Burma Society...
CONFERENCES:
UHRC Conference: Traditions of Knowledge in Southeast Asia;
Northern Illinois University Burma Studies Conference;
ISEAS Workshop on Myanmar Issues and Myanmar Views...
PROGRAMMES:
SEAMEO Regional Centre for History and Tradition, Myanmar (Burma)...
FELLOWSHIPS:
Postdoctoral Fellowships, Lund University. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2004, |
| Format/size: | | pdf (39K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://web.archive.org/web/20070612024114/web.soas.ac.uk/burma/vol__ii,_no__1.htm |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 August 2004 |
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| Title: | | SBBR: Abstracts Spring 2003 |
| Date of publication: | | 20 March 2003 |
| Description/subject: | | JÖRG SCHENDEL. The Mandalay Economy: Upper Burma’s External Trade, c. 1850–90...
MARILYN V. LONGMUIR. Oil in Burma: The Extraction of “Earth-Oil” to 1914...
ANNE-MAY CHEW. Les Temples Excavés de la Colline de Po Win en Birmanie Centrale: Architecture, Sculpture et Peintures murales...
MICHAEL W. CHARNEY. Where Jambudipa and Islamdom Converged: Religious Change and the Emergence of Buddhist Communalism in Early Modern Arakan (Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries). |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 1, No., 1, Spring 2003 |
| Format/size: | | pdf (79K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | April 2003 |
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| Title: | | “Living” Bibliography of Burma Studies: The Primary Sources. |
| Date of publication: | | 25 July 2002 |
| Description/subject: | | Organization of Entries: This list is divided by language (with the exception of
government publications). Please note that translated pieces are included in the list for
the original language of the source:
(I) Burmese: Inscriptions 3
(II) Burmese: Dhammathats 4
(III) Burmese: Sit-tans and Royal Orders 5
(IV) Burmese: Ayei-taw-poun 6
(V) Burmese: Sadan 7
(VI) Burmese: Yazawin 8
(VII) Burmese: Thamaing 9
(VIII) Burmese: Correspondence 10
(IX) Burmese: Other 11
(X) Chinese 12
(XI) Dutch 13
(XII) English: Correspondence & Treaties 14
(XIII) English: Travel Accounts & Memoirs 18
(XIV) English: Gazetteers 25
(XV) English: Settlement Operations Reports 26
(XVI) English: Census Reports 27
(XVII) English: Other Government Reports 28
(XVIII) French 29
(XIX) German 30
(XX) Italian 31
(XXI) Japanese 32
(XXII) Latin 33
(XXIII) Mon 34
(XXIV) Pali 35
(XXV) Persian 36
(XXVI) Portuguese & Spanish 37
(XXVII) Russian 41
(XXVIII) Thai 42
(XXIX) Other 43 |
| Author/creator: | | Michael W. Charney |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SOAS |
| Format/size: | | pdf (256K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 August 2012 |
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| Title: | | Kayah, Kayan, Karenni et Yang Daeng |
| Date of publication: | | June 2002 |
| Description/subject: | | Version internet 2002.
"...En Birmanie la zone ouverte aux étrangers est réduite par la guerre civile, et toute étude y serait dérangée par la présence imposée d’une escorte militaire. Les Kayah les plus faciles à approcher sont les Kayah orientaux (Kayè dans leur propre dialecte). On peut les atteindre de la frontière thaïe sans trop de difficultés.
Ces groupes Kayah sont assez différents de leurs cousins de l’ouest, et en particulier des Kayah de Kyebogyi. La principale différence est due aux conditions économiques, le pays très vallonné à l’est de la Salween n’est pas propice à l’agriculture, et la rotation annuelle des champs induit un déplacement périodique des villages. A l’opposé des villages occidentaux qui sont grands et stables, à l’est il faut souvent trois heures de marche pour d’atteindre le prochain hameau, ou les champs distants. Les villages sont d’habitude construits vers le tiers supérieur des collines, proche, mais pas à côté, d’un point d’eau. A l’intérieur même des villages les gros arbres ne vont pas être coupés: les pentes sont abruptes, parfois 70%, et les racines nécessaires pour retenir le sol. Il en sera de même dans les champs, où seuls les petits arbres seront éliminés. Je vis en 1983, après que tous les plants de riz tardifs moururent en raison de la sécheresse, qu’une végétation d’un mètre de haut envahit les champs abandonnés en trois mois.
Pour des raisons qu’il faudra étudier, les manifestations extérieures de la religion diffèrent aussi entre l’ouest et l’est du Karenni. Par exemple le Ko Thoo Bow, ou mât aux esprits, sera parfois très petit, fait d’un simple bambou, et non décoré à la manière de ceux de Kyebogyi. Je ne vis pas une fois la guirlande faite de petits fanions accrochée vers le sommet des mâts reliées au sol comme elle le serait à l’ouest. Dans les villages où je me suis rendu, je notais souvent l’absence de mât femelle, et la simplicité du “how”, réduit à une simple table en bambou..." |
| Author/creator: | | Jean-Marc Rastorfer |
| Language: | | Francais, French |
| Source/publisher: | | CédoK (Centre d'études et de Documentation sur les Karenni) |
| Format/size: | | html (827K) , Word (661K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/JMR-kayah1.doc |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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