Book Review: Becoming One:

Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar (Chika Watanabe)

This is a short excerpt from my book review of Chika Watanabe’s book.

Asian Ethnology, 2020, 79.1 pp. 193–195.

Even without an interest or background in the multiple disciplines Chika Watanabe draws upon, this book is nonetheless more than accessible to readers of many different levels of experience and engagement. It is an accessible and finely balanced explication that is equal parts empathetic and critical. The reader will certainly find the world we are invited to explore to be an utterly fascinating place full of contradictions and other moving parts. One of the most fascinating things is seeing how different people generate a sense of completeness through their attempts to make a universal furusato (homeplace).

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