Course Schedule Overview

 

 

Lectures

Readings

Audio/Video 

Unit 1.1 1.1a Theoretical Bgkd on Spirit Mediumship (Meeker)

1.1b Burmese Religion overview/context (Young)

Luig (2001)

Spiro (1996)

Nu Nu Yi (2008)

 Unit 1.2  1.2a Nat pwe, religion and performance (recorded conversation: Meeker and Ne Myo Aung)

1.2b  Young/Meeker interview with Lindsey Merrison

Friends in High Places [Film] 
SYNC. MTG 1  Live meeting with Nat Kadaw
 Unit 2.1  2.1 Cultural Preservation and Heritage in Myanmar: Gitameit Oral history project (Ne Myo Aung)  Douglas (2007)

Mar Lar Aung (2020)

 Gitameit resources and recordings
Unit 2.2  2.2 Learning Traditional Burmese music in USA and Myanmar (Peh/Hummer)   Growing Rhythm [Film]

Ko Gyi Kyaw [Film]

 

SYNC MTG 2  Cross-cultural conversation about preservation