Kawanami, H.
| English Phonetics | Hiroko Kawanami |
|---|---|
| Sort Name | Kawanami, Hiroko |
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- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- Lancaster University
Education
- MSc, PhD. London School of Economics and Political Science (Social Anthropology)
- BA, MA. Sophia University, Tokyo (International Relations with special emphasis on Sino-Japanese Relations)
Biographical Information
Hiroko Kawanami is a social anthropologist and Buddhist studies scholar interested in gender and Buddhism, dissemination of knowledge and moral values, social justice and wellbeing, charismatic power(s) of monastic practitioners, and more recently on Buddhist orthodoxy and how heretical monks are created in Myanmar.
She is fluent in vernacular Myanmar and Japanese, can read classical Chinese and Pali, and has conducted research on the Buddhist monastic community in Myanmar for the last three decades.
Her most recent monographs are The Culture of Giving in Myanmar (2020 Bloomsbury) and Renunciation and Empowerment of Buddhist Nuns in Myanmar-Burma (2013 Brill) http://www.brill.com/renunciation-and-empowerment-buddhist-nuns-myanmar-burma. She has also also edited Buddhism, International Relief Work, and Civil Society (2013 Palgrave Macmillan) and Buddhism and the Political Process (2016 PM). (Adapted from Source Nov 20, 2023)
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