...Henry Henne Thai Reader . By Mary R. Haas . Washington, D. C. : American Council of Learned Societies , 1954 . Publications Series A, Texts No. 1. ccxxiii. $4.00 (paper). Thai Vocabulary . By Mary R. Haas . Washington, D. C. : American Council of Learned Societies , 1955...

...Frederic C. Deyo Abstract Scholarly writings on the Chinese minority in Thailand have stressed the unique cultural values that traditionally have distinguished Thai from Thai-Chinese communities. Skinner and Coughlin, among others, have argued that the Chinese have traditionally been more diligent...

...Carl A. Trocki Thai Politics: Extracts and Documents 1932–1957 . Vol. I. Edited by Thak Chaloemtiarana . Bangkok : Social Science Association of Thailand , 1978 . xiv, 884 pp. No price (paper). (Available from the publisher.) The Thai Resistance Movement During the Second World War...

...Herbert P. Phillips Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 The Thai Peoples, Book I: The Origins and Habitats of the Thai Peoples With a Sketch of Their Material and Spiritual Culture . By Erik Seidenfaden . Bangkok : The Siam Society , 1958 . 177 . Maps...

...Andrew Turton Thai Radical Discourse: The Real Face of Thai Feudalism Today . By Craig J. Reynolds . Ithaca : Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program , 1987 . 186 pp. $15.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 440 T H E J O U R N A L OF ASIAN...

...: A Study ofNorthern Thai Myth and Ritual. By RICHARD DAVIS. Bangkok: Pandora Press, 1984. 324 pp. Place and Emotion in Northern Thai Ritual Behavior. By G E H A N W I J E Y E WARDENE. Bangkok: Pandora Press, 1982. 274 pp. Gehan Wijeyewardene and the late Richard Davis have for many years been important...

...Benjamin Baumann Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema . By Arnika Fuhrmann . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2016 . 272 pp. ISBN: 9780822361190 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

...Katherine A. Bowie Finding Their Voice: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State . By Charles Keyes . Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books , 2014 . xiv, 262 pp. $30.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Catalyzed by the dramatic events of April...

... Small), the Thai “transnational farmworker” (Sudarat Musikawong), and the Malaysian “returning urbanite” (Matthew Amster). Further, it is not only those belonging to national majorities who have been transformed; new modern figures have also emerged in minority societies—for example, among the Cham...

... the binary of just men and women. Scholars have noted that what it means to be a man in Thailand is often defined in terms of not being effeminate, gay, or transgender. Drawing on Thai news stories, social media comments, and ethnographic research, I explore how monastic masculinity—the way in which what...

... of their struggle against the Thai authorities. This book is worth reading for scholars of urban planning, sociology, anthropology, and human geography alike. Herzfeld fills each of his chapters in Siege of the Spirits with rich and detailed descriptions and explanations of how the fight of the Chao Pom...

...Nicola Tannenbaum The Thai Village Economy in the Past . By Chatthip Nartsupha . Translated and with an afterword by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit . Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Press , 1999 . viii, 131 pp. $17.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Charles F. Keyes Agricultural Change and Peasant Choice in a Thai Village . By Michael Moerman . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1968 . xii , 227 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Graphs, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Craig J. Reynolds Abstract In Thai studies to date there has been little attempt to discuss the changes that took place during the nineteenth century in terms of what Western historiography would call intellectual history. The reasons for the scant attention paid to this subject are various, having...

... ASTBj, pp. 7 – 35 ; Wright M. A. , “Some Observations on Thai Animism,” Practical Anthropology , 1968 , p. 1 ; and Rajadhon Anuman , Essays on Thai Folklore ( Bangkok : The Social Science Association Press of Thailand , 1968 ), p. 33 . 4 Such syncretist...

...Jack M. Potter Change and Persistence in Thai Society: Essays in Honor of Lauriston Sharp . Edited By G. William Skinner and A. Thomas Kirsch . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1975 . 386 pp. Maps, Figures,. Bibliography, Index. $17.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...A. Thomas Kirsch Abstract Complexity has characterized the Thai religious system since at least 1292, when the well-known inscription of Rama Kamhaeng was composed. This inscription not only celebrates the devotion of his people of Sukhothai to Theravada Buddhism but also notes a special...

... archival research in Bangkok on northeastern Thai history, including the uprising discussed in this paper. In 1972–1974, while serving as a Fulbright exchange lecturer at Chiang Mai Univerthropology sity, I was able to gather additional information on millennialism in Thailand. 1 “Religion...

...Jordan Baskerville The Ordination of a Tree: The Thai Buddhist Environmental Movement . By Susan M. Darlington . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2012 . xvii, 302 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013...

... Cross-Culturally . 2 This analysis applies most completely to the Central Plains of Thailand, in which there is reason to believe that the critical characterological and institutional features are widespread. The North, also heavily populated by ethnic Thai, diverges in a number of respects...