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Myanmar Musings

Myanmar Musings is the world's leading podcast with researchers and thinkers on issues relating to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the interviewees/guests and do not necessarily accord with those of the host or the Myanmar Research Centre.

Oct 26, 2020

Come curious and hungry to this podcast and you won't be disappointed! From delectable bamboo shoots to deliciously pungent akhuni, from changing rice beer traditions to expanding fruit wine markets, Dr Dolly Kikon, an Anthropologist at the University of Melbourne, discusses how Naga fermentation cultures and...


Oct 8, 2020

Naga society is undergoing significant change as a consequence of ceasefires and the easing of conflict in north-east India. Matt Wilkinson, a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales, discusses his thesis on the Naga people and their homelands, emphasising how gender is important for understanding these...


Oct 5, 2020

How do Bama Buddhists conceptualise social relations, prestige and gender difference? In an episode primed for outsiders trying to understand mainstream Myanmar culture, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Ward Keeler, discusses his book The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and its Others in...