...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...

...Herbert P. Phillips BOOK REVIEWS 467 apples, pears, grapes, melons, tobacco, and The Thai Peoples, Book I: The Origins and many kinds of vegetables. Father Golomb pre- Habitats of the Thai Peoples With a sents us with detailed information on tech- Sketch of Their Material and Spiritual niques...

...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...

...Michael R. Rhum Muang Metaphysics: A Study of Northern Thai Myth and Ritual . By Richard Davis . Bangkok : Pandora Press , 1984 . 324 pp. Place and Emotion in Northern Thai Ritual Behavior . By Gehan Wijeyewardene . Bangkok : Pandora Press , 1982 . 274 pp. Copyright ©...

...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...

...James V. Martin, Jr Abstract World War II brought a degree of complexity and intensity to Thai-American relations that contrasted sharply with their quiet uneventfulness in the era preceding it. Before the war, Thai relations with the United States had been friendly, but not close since Thailand...

... the collection of comparable data for description and analysis in the areas of social structure and economics. The original plan was modified in the field during an exchange of visits to the Burmese and Thai peasant communities eventually selected for study. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...G. William Skinner Abstract Chinese have been immigrating to Siam for at least six centuries. We are concerned here with the process whereby the descendants of Chinese immigrants become full members of Thai society. Assimilation is, of course, a social process. For the descendants of a given...

...Herbert P. Phillips Thai Buddhism, Its Rites and Activities . By Kenneth E. Wells . Bangkok : Published by the author , 1960 . Distributed by Christian Bookstore, Bangkok, viii, 320 . Illustrated, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... in the West is a ritualized contract, lacks this characteristic in the traditional Thai setting. No bonds of marriage, no wedding vows, are pronounced; no tokens of fidelity to a contract, such as rings, are exchanged. Only a raut nam , a blessing in the form of a libation, is visited on bride and groom...

...Kenneth Perry Landon Thai-English dictionary . By George Bradley McFarland . Stanford University : Stanford University Press , 1944 . xxi, 1019 , p. $9.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1945 1945 298 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY It can be said...

...Tej Bunnag The Organization of Thai Society in the Early Bangkok Period, 1782–1873 . By Akin Rabibhadana . Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University , 1969 . Cornell Thailand Project, Interim Reports Series No. 12. Data Paper No. 74. xi, 247 pp. Tables, Appendices, Bibliography...

...James A. Hafner The Economic Development of Thai Agriculture . By T. H. Silcock . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1970 . xiii, 250 pp. Appendices References, Maps, Tables, Index. $11.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 920 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Christopher Court Laī Sū' Thai: Essays in Honour of E. H. S. Simmonds . Edited by J. H. C. S. Davidson . Collected Papers in Oriental and African Studies. London : University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies ., 1987 . x, 190 pp. £6.00. Copyright © The Association...

...Jack M.; Sulamith Heins Potter Chinese-Thai Differential Assimilation in Bangkok: An Exploratory Study . By Boonsanong Punyodyana . Ithaca : Cornell University , Southeast Asia Program, 1971 . xvii, 117 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Bibliography. $4.00. Copyright © The Association...

...Charles B. Mehl Food and Population in a Northeast Thai Village . By Hayao Fukui . Translated by Peter Hawkes . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1993 . xxii, 421 pp. $48.00 (cloth), $30.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 898...

...Hong Lysa Abstract This essay is an exploration of one aspect of the politics of gender representation in Thailand, namely, how the portrayals of Siamese women in Thai popular histories form part of the present-day shaping of gender relations. I argue that moving in tandem with developments...

...Ellison Banks Findly Thai Tellings of Phra Malai: Texts and Rituals Concerning a Popular Buddhist Saint . By Bonnie Pacala Brereton . Tempe : Southeast Asia Program, Arizona State University , 1995 . xiii, 252 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996...

...Katherine A. Bowie Patterns and Illusions: Thai History and Thought . Edited by Gehan Wijeyewardene and E. C. Chapman . (In memory of Richard B. Davis). Canberra : The Richard Davis Fund and Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National...