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Index abortions, 166–68, 172; fatalities, 150 absurdity: artifice and mimesis as urban reality, 121–24; betting and ‘‘sayings,’’ 141–45; Buddhist kitsch and State’s, 124–27; counteroffensives, 137–41; limits of discourse, 145–46; puppets and demonization of Aung San Suu Kyi, 131–37; tension of, 120; war on semantics , 127–30 Adams, Vincanne, 124 addicts: arrests, 10, 91, 92; drug, 92–93, 115; heroin, 10, 11, 91, 92–93, 181, 188, 200 Adorno, Theodor, 12, 114, 195 affect, 215n3; State’s construction of, 38– 39, 42, 100 Ahlone township, 31 AIDS, 192, 204 ajoun pjaun (dissociation), 193 Alaungpaya (king), 1, 2 All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU), 61 All Burma Peasants Organizations, 101 All Burma Student’s Democratic Front (ABSDF), 61–62; death sentences, 73 Allott, Anna, 74, 96, 119, 186, 218n3 Amarapura, 202 American Embassy, 23 amphetamines, 90 amusement parks, 122 ana (power through influence), 107 anade (reciprocal power), 148 Anagnost, Ann, 114–15 Anawratha (king), 1 Andaman Sea, 148 Anderson, Benedict, 36, 70 Angelay, 20 Angkor Wat, 14 animism, 185 Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League (AFPFL), 3, 62, 101 Anti-Fascist Resistance Day, 62. See also Armed Forces Day anti-government sentiment, cartoons and, 74–75 Appadurai, Arjun, 38 Arcades, 121–22 Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, 64, 217n5, 219n1 Arendt, Hannah, 63 Arimettaya, 11, 206 Aris, Michael, 134, 135 armature, 114 Armed Forces Day, 36, 62, 108, 141, 177 Armed Forces Museum, 126 arrests, 5, 9, 21, 32, 74; Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, 82, 102, 132, 216n2; clowns, 127; foreign journalists, 72; heroin addicts, 10, 91, 92; monks, 23; Ne Win, 140, 149; newspaper editors, 74; NLD members, 73, 139; San San, Daw, 73; students, 23, 29; Tin Oo, U, 102; Win Htein, U, 72–73; Win Tin, U, 62 artists, censorship and, 75 Asia World, 92 Asian Emperor Scorpion, 13 Asian Forest Scorpion. See Burmese Giant Forest Scorpion asi-ayone (organizations), 101 assassination, attempts, 28 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 130 astrologers, 106, 136, 139, 140, 145, 204 Astrology Council, 140 236 Index Aung Mya Ze township, 150 Aung Pin Le, 147, 150, 153, 170 Aung San (General), 2, 3, 21, 58, 62, 63, 213n1; Blue Print for Burma, 131 Aung San Suu Kyi, 4, 7, 21, 24, 27, 34, 39, 40, 44, 47, 49, 51, 56, 58, 62, 68, 117, 119, 127, 133, 140, 173, 181, 203; arrest, 63, 82, 102, 132, 216n2; assassination attempt, 28, 102, 213n1, 215n1; demonization of, 132–37, 220n3; personality cult of, 138; popularity of, 131; as puppet , 134, 135; release of, 115; residence of, 127, 220n5; roadblocks and, 23, 46, 83, 137; statements made by, 216n3. See also Blue Print for Burma; ‘‘The Game Rules in Burma’’; History of the Resistance to Fascism ‘‘Aung San Suu Kyi’s intersection,’’ 6 Aung Than, U, 56 Aung Thwin, Maureen, 132 Australia, 20 Australia Club, 81 Australian Broadcasting Service, 32 Ava, court of, 2 awalas, 136 awsa (power through authority), 107 Ay Yee, Ma, 65 Aye Aye, Ma, 198 Aye Hlaing, U, 20 Aye, Maung, 91 Aye So, Maung, 200 Ayerwaddy province, 65, 209 Ba Han, 202 Ba Pe, U, 53, 177–78 Ba, U, 88–89 Bachelard, Gaston, 14 Bago province, 65, 209 Bahan, 4, 85 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 128 Bangkok, 79, 81 Bangkok Post, 96 Bataille, Georges, 59 Baudrillard, Jean, 84, 111, 196–97 BBC, 5, 9, 40, 73, 74, 138 Beaudelaire, Charles, 114 belu (ogres), 13 Bengal Engineers, 2 Benjamin, Walter, 10, 84, 97, 99, 108, 110, 111, 118, 121, 122–23, 125, 218n4, 219n1 Bernstein, Dennis, 91–92, 95 betting, 141–42 Bhikkuni exams, 18 black market, 52–53, 54, 79 Blacklists, 74 Bloch, Ernst, 80, 99, 120 Blue Print for Burma (Aung San), 131 Bo Bo Aung, 184, 203 bodies: automatized, 111–13, 195; silent, 119, 195; as symbols of State power, 114–15 bodily dissociation: definition of, 193; Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), 194 bombs, 21, 23; scare, 22 Bon Jovi, 121 Britain, 2, 5, 12, 87, 134, 135 brothels, 156, 162 Brown Shirts, 62, 102 Brückner, Peter, 100 Bruner, Edward, 182 Buck-Morss, Susan, 84, 111, 122, 219n1 Buddha, 11, 17, 20, 185, 214n1; statues, 85 Buddhist Works program, 214n2 Buddhism, Buddhists, 6, 9, 13, 18–20, 35, 60, 128, 133, 136, 214n2; Burmese, 16– 17, 20, 78, 141, 152, 153, 179–80, 197; Cambodian, 14; Dhammatat, 15; Japanese , 85; kings, 1, 4, 83, 88, 90; kitsch, 124–27; Korean, 85; lent, 21; Mahayana, 185; sects, 140; symbols...
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