Write a four-page paper that addresses how Buddhist religious symbols, narratives, ideas, or rituals shape social hierarchies. Choose one example from the readings below and show how they create, reinforce, or subvert social relations of power.
Readings:
1) Katherine Bowie. Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand. Madison: Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2017.
CHOOSE EXAMPLE FROM (introduction “Of Monarchs, Monks and Peasant Masses” pages 3-36 OR Chapter 3 “Northern Thailand: Humor Delighted” pages 123-166. )
2) Sri Dao Ruang. “Matsii.” In The Lioness in Bloom: Modern Thai Fiction About Women, edited by Susan Fulop Kepner, 95-103. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
3) Hiroko Kawanami, The Culture of Giving in Myanmar: Buddhist Offerings, Reciprocity and Interdependence London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
4) Read: Ma Thida. Prisoner of Conscience: My Steps through Insein. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Press, 2016.
CHOOSE EXAMPLE FROM: Chapter 11 “Staying Alive” (108-117), Chapter 13, Chapter 14 OR Chapter 15
5) Julia Cassaniti, Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.
CHOOSE EXAMPLE FROM: Introduction pages 1-9, and 15-19 OR Chapter 1 “Monk’s Mindfulness” pages 23-58, OR Ghostly Powers pages 130-143.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
12 point times new roman double spaced.
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