1st Edition
Heritage, Power, and Liminality Culture and the Crisis of Authoritarian Transitions in Myanmar
1. Heritage, Power, and Liminality
2. Rethinking Heritage Theory with Political Anthropology
3. Two Centuries of Heritage and Transition in Myanmar
4. Political Uses of Sacred Heritage at Shwedagon and Uppātasanti Pagodas
5. Fractured Memoryscape of the Rangoon Secretariat
6. Trickster Makes a Democracy Museum
7. The Crucial Schism
8. Liminal Heritage
9. Conclusion: The Global Meantime
Biography
Alicia Stevens coordinates the Heritage, Memory, and Identity Pillar for MIT’s Global Humanities Initiative. She is a Gates Cambridge Scholar with PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge (Dept of Archaeology), a postdoctoral member of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Two decades of international museum work for the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History also inform her research.
