Everything about Burma Studies totally explained
Burma Studies is a grouping used in research universities around the world as a way of bringing together specialists from different disciplines such as
history,
cultural anthropology,
archeology,
religious studies,
art history,
political science, and
musicology, who are doing research in these areas focused on the geographical area of what is today the country of
Myanmar or Burma, often using the
Burmese language, or a language of one of its
ethnic groups such as the
Shan,
Mon,
Karen,
Chin, or
Kachin.
The
Journal of the Burma Research Society (JBRS) was the first
academic journal devoted to Burma Studies. The journal started in
1911 about the same time as
The Journal of the Siam Society and was published in Burma but is no longer published today. The
Myanmar Historical Commission which was established in 1955 regularly publishes a journal and holds conferences in Myanmar
Currently, outside of Burma there are two academic journals specialising in Burma Studies research articles, the
Journal of Burma Studies and the
SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research.
The
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London was the first institution of higher education outside of Burma to have many faculty specialising in Burma Studies. Specialists in the
Burmese language and
literature included the scholars Hla Pe, John Okell, Anna Allot and in
the history of Burma the historian
D.G.E. Hall.
H.L. Shorto specialised in
Mon language and literature. The late historian of Burma
U Than Tun received his doctorate in history at SOAS. Many current specialists in Burma and its languages and ethnic groups received their doctorates at SOAS such as the historians
Victor B. Lieberman and the Mon linguist
Christian Bauer.
The Center for Burma Studies at
Northern Illinois University is the national center for Burma studies in the United States. There is also a lot of activity in Burma studies at the
University of Michigan, the
University of Hawaii, the
National University of Singapore, and
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Despite the name of the country officially having been changed to "Myanmar", most universities still refer to this academic focus as "Burma studies" reflecting the
contested status of the name "Myanmar" outside of the country.
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