Heritage Drinks of Myanmar
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These 15-minute videos contain the highlights of talks delivered in the Myanmar Dialogue Series, a platform enabling public debate about the pressing political and social conditions in Myanmar since the 2021 military coup. Where Dialogue Series speakers give their permission, we will create a Dialogue Short which condenses the core points of their presentation.
The Shorts are perfect for undergraduate classes and other educational settings where students need concise information on current pressing political and social issues in Myanmar. Policymakers and people working in settings with a lot of time constraints might also find that they usefully summarize issues about which they need to be abreast in order do plan and make decisions on Myanmar — and that they draw attention to the many promising new scholars of Myanmar emerging both from within the country and abroad.
Title: Heritage Drinks of Myanmar
Speaker: Luke Corbin, Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Change, ANU
Date: 14 October 2022
Chair: Hunter Marston
Heritage Drinks of Myanmar takes the reader on an anthropological journey through emerald misty mountains and rust-red river valleys to showcase fourteen of the myriad alcoholic drinks made in this unique and fascinating country. In Myanmar, freshly brewed and distilled beers, wines and spirits are integral parts of village economies, providing health, communal and financial benefits. Rice whiskeys infused with insects and fresh beers made from a cornucopia of grains await eager drinkers, brewed as they have been for generations by village residents with their own individual unique customs and traditions. Drinking has long been interwoven with diverse human expression, ritual, relaxation and desire, and Myanmar’s heritage drinks are here exquisitely photographed and detailed through exhaustive interviews with village producers. Pick it up, drink it in, put it down and enjoy an imbibe as your mind wanders to lands far and favoured, to the Golden Land.