Burma to Myanmar

Alexandra Green is Henry Ginsburg Curator for Southeast Asia and Curator of the exhibition Myanmar in the world at the British Museum. She has written and edited numerous books and articles on Southeast Asian art and culture, including: Raffles in Southeast Asia (Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore), Buddhist Visual Cultures, Rhetoric and Narrative in Late Burmese Wall Paintings (Hong Kong University Press), Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives (Hong Kong University Press), Eclectic Collecting: Art from Burma in the Denison Museum (NUS Press), and Southeast Asia: a history in objects (forthcoming: Thames & Hudson in collaboration with the British Museum). With contributions from:AnonymousPyiet Phyo Kyaw is Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Yangon. Maitrii Aung-Thwin is Associate Professor of Myanmar/Southeast Asian history at the National University of Singapore.Melissa Carlson is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.Caroline Cartwright is Senior Scientist at the British Museum.Joanne Dyer is Scientist: Colour Science at the British Museum.Alexandra Kaloyanides is Associate Professor in Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina.Mandy Sadan is Associate Professor in Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick.Arthur Swan Ye Tun is a PhD candidate at the National University of Singapore.Diego Tamburini is Scientist: Polymeric and Organic Materials at the British Museum.Thaw Zin Latt is a researcher whose work focuses on Myanmar and Burmese art.

• ForewordIntroduction – Alexandra Green1. Natural resources and geography – Alexandra Kaloyanides2. Bagan: a cosmopolitan Buddhist kingdom – Thaw Zin Latt, P.P.K. and Alexandra Green3. States and networks: expansion and contraction, 1500–1900 – Alexandra Green4. The British colonial period – Alexandra Green5. Karen peoples and their textiles: from natural to synthetic dyeing practices – Caroline Cartwright, Joanne Dyer, Diego Tamburini and Alexandra Green6. Myanmar in the world: the Second World War – Maitrii Aung-Thwin and Arthur Swan Ye Tun7. Thinking about minoritised communities – Mandy Sadan8. Material culture after independence – Alexandra Green and Anonymous9. Modern and contemporary art activism (1948–present) – Melissa CarlsonAppendixNotesBibliographyList of contributorsAcknowledgementsPicture creditsIndex