The Burman (Classic Reprint): His Life and Notions - Couverture souple

Shway Yoe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331619009 ISBN 13 : 9781331619000

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Unearth Burmese stage life and rich cultural traditions through the pages of this classic study, and see how theater, ritual, and daily life intertwine.

The book surveys a vibrant world where puppet and live drama move crowds, where nights are filled with music, and where audiences stay seated from sunset until dawn. It blends description of performances with notes on audience behavior, backstage practices, and the social meanings of entertainment in Mandalay and surrounding regions. The text also touches on related customs, such as the ritual use of pickled tea at gatherings and the careful way performers, patrons, and hosts navigate tradition and novelty.

• How Burmese puppet and spoken drama are staged, timed, and received by diverse audiences.
• Ways performers imitate voices, adapt tunes, and keep a play lively across long runs.
• Social context for performance, including the role of hosts, guests, and ritual foods.
• Illustrative sketches of dramatic stories and the cultural backdrop that shapes them.

Ideal for readers curious about ethnography, Southeast Asian culture, and the lives of traditional performers.

The Burman by Shway Yoe

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Burman: His Life and Notions

Phoneticism is said to be "the murderer of history," and there has been a craze of late years to prevent this felony by the adoption of "scientific methods" of rendering Burmese in English characters. I have no doubt that whatever other faults I may be accused of, I shall be greatly blamed for endeavouring to reproduce the pronunciation rather than the orthography of Burmese words. But I may be allowed to contend that the catch phrase ascribing bloodguiltiness to phoneticism, however just it may be in a country where fonetic nuz puzzle a long-suffering generation, is most misleading and calumnious where it is applied to a foreign language, and especially to such a language as Burmese. No one who is concerned about the etymology of a language is likely to study it except in the national character; if he trusts to transliterations, scientific or otherwise, he will most assuredly be little worth listening to. When an author writes in English about a little-known people he presumably writes for a majority of readers who know nothing whatever of the language, and cannot be reasonably expected to have any very great concern in its etymology as long as they get a more or less correct notion of how the words should be pronounced. This is most especially the case in Burmese, where, in very many cases, the orthography of a word supplies but the remotest possible hint of its pronunciation.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331619009
• ISBN 13: 9781331619000
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 629
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