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The Prime Minister's public apology at Parliamentary Question Time today for a Number 10 garden party event in May 2020 when Covid-19 restrictions were in place on outdoor gatherings came as something of a surprise to me, as his track record to date would have suggested brazenly trying to ride it out and deny any responsibility or culpability.

IN THIS REVIEW ESSAY, RECENT SIGNIFICANT WORKS ON THE SUBJECT OF COMPARATIVE ETHNICITY ARE SITUATED IN THE BROADER CONTEXT OF CULTURAL PLURALISM AS AN EMERGENT INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD, THE REASONS FOR THE CRUSTALLIZATION OF CULTURAL PLURALISM AS A DISTINCTIVE FIELD OF INQUIRY ARE EXPLORED. THE RISE OF ETHNIC STUDIES WAS OBVIOUSLY TRIGGERED BY THE GROWING SALIENCY OF COMMUNAL CONFLICT IN ALL REGIONS OF THE WORLD. THE LOW VISIBILITY OF SUCH CLEAVAGES IN THE EARLY POSTWAR YEARS MAY BE ATTRIBUTED TO CONJUNCTURAL FACTORS. IMPORTANT LONG-TERM TRENDS INCLUDE THE BROADENING AND DEEPENING OF PATTERNS OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION AND COMPETITION THROUGH URBANIZATION, EXPANDING LITERACY, MASS MEDIA, AND POPULATION MOVEMENTS; THESE PROCESSES ARE APT TO PRODUCE HEIGHTENED COMMUNAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND POLITICIZATION OF ETHNIC CLEAVAGES. THE GREAT EXPANSION IN THE SCOPE OF STATE ACTIONS RISES THE STAKES IN ISSUES OF DIVISION OF THE NATIONAL PRODUCT AND DOMINATION OF THE STATE APPARATUS. A LARGE CONSENSUS HAS EMERGED IN THE LITERATURE AS TO THE SITUATIONAL, CONTEXTUAL, AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL NATURE OF ETHNICITY. WITHIN THE COMPARATIVE ETHNICITY LITERATURE, AN IMPORTANT DIVISION HAS APPEARED BETWEEN "INSTRUMENTALISTS," WHO STRESS THE PURSUIT OF COLLECTIVE ADVANTAGES, AND "PRIMORDIALISTS," WHO FOCUS UPON THE ASSUMED GIVENS OF SHARED CULTURE AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF ETHNIC CONSCIOUSNESS.

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Temples and local communities -- Deities, speech groups, and temples -- Temple services, mediums, and temple promotion -- Localization and Chinese religion -- Pudu: the hungry ghosts festival -- Religious organizations and philanthropy -- Taoist religion in Malaysia

The Htilominlo Temple is a colossal religious building constructed by King Nātoṅmyā (Nataungmya) (AD 1211-1231) in the early 13th century AD. In addition to the title "Htilominlo", it is also called 'Trilokamaṅgalā' meaning 'Blessing of the Three Worlds'. It stands magnificently on the side of the Bagan-Nyaung U car road. Architecturally, it is a two-storeyed temple with a voluminous solid core and entresol. It is built of both brick and stone. The brick-bond used in it good and sandstone blocks are interspersed among the bricks. Through the study of the architecture of this temple, the high architectural standard of ancient Myanmar architects can be known. Besides, through the comparative study of Early, Middle and Late Bagan Period temples, evolution of Bagan architecture can be learnt. Moreover, numerous religious building can reflect the living standard of the people of Bagan and their economic, political and religious situations of that time.

'Angkor Wat, A Royal Temple' by Helene Legendre De Koninck is reviewed.