Religious Gift-Giving Turned Upside Down. On Monks and Punks in Myanmar

Carolin Hirsch

Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik - Journal for Business, Economics & Ethics, 2021, vol. 22, issue 1, 6-27

Abstract: In Myanmar, a mainly Buddhist country, gift-giving practices are part of the everyday life. An established practice is dāna, where laypeople support those living a monastic life. Turning this established practice on its head is used as a tool of socio-political protest by a group of punks, who run the local chapter of Food Not Bombs in Yangon. The punks’' protest is contextualized through the local nexus of religion and politics, within which dāna practices occupy a central role.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.5771/1439-880X-2021-1-6

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