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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 528–549.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Thongchai Winichakul Abstract On 27 december 1932, prince bhidayalongkorn, the President of the Royal Institute of Siam, delivered a special lecture titled “What are the conditions called ‘ siwilai ’?” [Phawa yangrai no thi riakwa khwam siwilai]. Transliterated from the English word civilized...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 747–749.
Published: 01 November 2023
... fashion, photography, and in diplomatic gestures, Dara presented her ethnic identity in ways that both served her king and raised Lan Na closer to “Siwilai” (the Thai term for “civilized”) status, as viewed by the Siamese elite. Unlike other consorts, for example, Dara did not assimilate to Siamese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 525.
Published: 01 August 2000
... existing between and among space, place, and identity in early modern and modern Asia. THONGCHAI W I N I C H A K U L traces the development of the idea of siwilai (the Thai word for civilize) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He finds that the emerging discourse about being civilized...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 519–521.
Published: 01 May 2015
... life while still maintaining her traditional heritage. The brief sketches of a number of Southeast Asian “figures” in the collection edited by Joshua Barker, Erik Harms, and Johan Lindquist can be seen to be connected to Kepner's biography in that both “civilization” (Thai, siwilai...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (4): 1105–1114.
Published: 01 November 2000
..., and Provincial Lords: Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the American Philippines, 1900-1913" T H O N G C H A I , WINICHAKUL. "The Quest for 'Siwilai': A Geographical Discourse of Civilizational Thinking in the Late 19th and Early 20th C. Siam" Communications to the Editor Wu Fusheng's response to Paul...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 881–909.
Published: 01 November 2005
... for ‘Siwilai’: A Geographical Discourse of Civilizational Thinking in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Siam .” Journal of Asian Studies 59 ( 3 ): 528 –49. Andrew Turton , ed. 2000 . Civility and Savagery: Social Identity in Tai States . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon . Vella...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 887–906.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... It is no coincidence that the Thai term siwilai (civilized) is of obviously French or English etymological origin—at a time when Siam was threatened by British or French invasion. There is an immediate parallel with the fort that gives Pom Mahakan its name; it was built to repel an expected French invasion...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1163–1203.
Published: 01 November 2002
... a. “The Others Within: Travel and Ethno-Spatial Differentiation of Siamese Subjects.” In Civility andSavagery , edited by Turton Andrew . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon . Thongchai Winichakul . 2000 b. “ The Quest for ‘Siwilai’: A Geographical Discourse of Civilizational Thinking in the Late...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 433–467.
Published: 01 May 2008
... Southeast Madagascar .” American Ethnologist 29 ( 2 ): 366 – 91 . Winichakul Thongchai . 1994 . Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of Siam . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press . Winichakul Thongchai . 2000 a. “ The Quest for ‘Siwilai’: A Geographical Discourse...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 311–344.
Published: 01 May 2007
... to the Toyota Foundation. Thongchai Winichakul . 1994 . Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press . Thongchai Winichakul . 2000 . “ The Quest for ‘Siwilai’: A Geographical Discourse of Civilizational Thinking in the Late Nineteenth and Early...
