Customs, costumes & etiquette in Myanmar

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This is a selection of resources on customs, costumes and etiquette in Myanmar available from the NLB catalogue or the Internet. It is not meant to be an exhaustive list.

NLB print and digital resources

CultureShock! Myanmar: A survival guide to customs and etiquette

The CultureShock! edition on Myanmar provides useful information on local customs, the correct etiquette to observe, interact and communicate with the local populace.

Myanmar (Burma)

The pocketbook sized Culture Smart! edition on Myanmar consists of informative articles about various aspects of Myanmar culture and customs. It is usefully divided into sections on attitudes, religion, friendship, home and communications.

Myanmar culture, traditions and scenery

This book helps you make sense of Myanmar culture with its chapters on food, festivals, beliefs and practices. It is useful as it covers Burmese terms used in social situations.

To Myanmar with love

This is a unique travel guide that comprises people’s recollections of their time in Myanmar. These accounts are divided into a dozen chapters, of which the ones on Cultural Encounters, Making Friends and When in Rome are particularly useful.

Homeland: Traditional culture and customs of Myanmar ethnics

This coffee table volume of photographs and an earlier sister volume, Splendour Land, by Hla Myint Swe is an attractive introduction to the various ethnic peoples and places of Myanmar.

National ethnic groups of Myanmar

This book contains beautiful photographs and brief descriptions of the 33 traditional ethnic communities that make up the national ethnic groups in Myanmar.