“[This book is] of great value for those interested in Burma, its marginalized urban populations and their links with South Asia, or even current work in existential anthropology…. [it] accurately documents the history and dilemmas of minority groups (Shia, Tamil, Memon and Kalai) based on an engagement with the individuals who are supposed to constitute these collectives.”
Moussons
“By tracing how the two forces – the becoming of 'we-formation' versus the being of community – interact to shape the lives of these populations, Rethinking Community in Myanmar also reveals additional contours of Myanmar's absent/present state.”
PoLAR
"An important work not only because the populations of Indo-Burmese origin remain to this day truly left behind by Burmese anthropology, but also because by avoiding the identity impasse, the author crosses a threshold in the understanding of otherness through the emergence of new categories, of which colonial jurisprudence, from an emic point of view, constitutes one of the foundations."
