Village Life in Modern Thailand
Village Life in Modern Thailand

Author: John E. deYoung

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0520325974

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

The Thai Village Economy in the Past
The Thai Village Economy in the Past

Author: Chatthip Nartsupha

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 9789747551099

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The Thai Village Economy in the Past is one of the classics of modern Thai history. Few books have provoked so much interest or controversy. Though the theme of the book is deceptively simple--that the Thai rural economy was a subsistence economy and remained so much longer than is commonly thought--the message of the book has proved far from simple. Chatthip has written the history of the village from the viewpoint of the village, making it one of the key texts of the "community culture" movement and rural revival. Much of the book's appeal stems from its straightforward style and startling ideas. The village existed before capitalism and before the state. It has its own culture which owes little to urban influence. It took the Buddhism that came from outside and subordinated it to local beliefs. Constantly in print since its first publication in 1984, it is now available in English for the first time. Chatthip Nartsupha is professor of economic history at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.

Family Life in a Northern Thai Village
Family Life in a Northern Thai Village

Author: Sulamith Heins Potter

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 0520341848

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"Potter's 'humanistic narrative' probes family social structure and social organization in Chiangmai, a Northern Thai village .... a solid, informative, and very interesting and alive picture."--Library Journal "Gives us a rare inside view of daily life in a northern Thai village . . . The reader gets a feeling of life, pleasure,jealously,anger, pain, and death that is seldom discussed in the anthropological literature."--Asia "Rejecting the traditional 'loosely structured' theory of the Thai family, Potter suggests a system that is female--centered with structurally significant consanguineal ties between women rather than men. This alternative not only explains the data presented but offers a new way of looking at comparative kinship." --Intercom "The dynamic interplay between the structural dominance of women and the ideological dominance of men is vividly brought out, challenging earlier, and possibly male-biased, perspectives on Northern Thai family structure."--Population and Development Review "Potter succeeds in presenting ethnographic material in a lively, humanistically oriented manner. By the time we have encountered three generations of Plenitudes at home in their courtyard . . . we know them as individuals as we as representatives of an exotic culture. . . . Potter presents individual portraits alongside this vivid picture of family and social structure, communal and individual economic activity, political factionalism, and religious observance . . . this book stands as a challenge to cross-cultural psychology."--Contemporary Psychology "Dr. Potter's study is highly readable and will be of interest to the general public as well as to scholars."--Asian Student

Village Life
Village Life

Author: Sērī Phongphit

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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"This is not a new book. We have maintained much of the original work, published in 1990 as Thai Village Life: Culture and Transition in the Northeast. We have spent a considerable time editing the original text and refining our observations. We have also attempted to indicate, especially in the Introduction and the Epilogue, how things have changed."--P. vii.