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DESCRIPTION:The Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry\, the Cultu
 re\, Mind\, and Brain Program\, and the Global Mental Health Program are p
 leased to invite you to their next Seminar series:\n\nDr. Seinenu M. Thein
 -Lemelson\, (University of California\, Los Angeles)\, will present \n\nBe
 coming Naingkyin: Sacrificial Rites and Rituals of Resilience in the Burme
 se Democracy Movement\n\nThe talk will take place Thursday October 8 from 
 3 to 5 PM EST via Zoom.\n\nPlease register here\n\nAbstract\n\nThe Burmese
  democracy movement and the community of political prisoners (known colloq
 uially as naingkyin) that comprised it had a profound impact upon the traj
 ectory of modern Burma\, yet their contributions have been overlooked by s
 cholars. What little scholarshipexists on the democracy movement ignores t
 he naingkyin’s culture\, psychology\, and subjectivity. Based on a seven-y
 ear\, multi-sited ethnography\, I document how naingkyin: conceptualize mo
 ral personhood\; construct their identities\; perform rituals\; maintain a
 nannual calendar of commemorations\; sustain social relationships\; engage
  in caregiving\; provide one another with social support\; monitor each ot
 her’s status\; produce intellectual and artistic content\; derive meaning 
 from their own suffering\; document their ownhistory\; and participate in 
 material and monetary exchanges. Each one of these elements of their compl
 ex cultural system is shaped to a large degree by an indigenous concept kn
 own as anitnah\, which resembles the English term of “sacrifice.” In this 
 talk\, Iuse person-centered\, experience-near accounts to render the naing
 kyin’s journey through the interrogation centers and prisons. Rather than 
 viewing their encounters with political violence as resulting in what West
 ern psychiatrists would identify as 'trauma'\,naingkyin view themselves as
  having undergone a necessary rite of passage (Van Gennep\, 1960\; Turner\
 , 1969\; Herdt\, 1998). Those who traverse the liminality of the interroga
 tion centers and prisons experience a sacred transformation of the self. T
 his new selfthat is reborn is not considered to be afflicted\, but made pu
 rer through the sacrificial act. I give a broad overview of notions of “me
 ntal purity” in the Theravada Buddhist canon\, as well as in normative und
 erstandings. I describe how lay beliefs about mental purity are extended t
 hrough emotion and symbolism into the political domain. For naingkyin and 
 their supporters\, anitnah is crucial to judgements about political legiti
 macy and imaginings of the Burmese nation state.\n
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SUMMARY:Seminar Series: Becoming Naingkyin: Sacrificial Rites and Rituals o
 f Resilience in the Burmese Democracy Movement 
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