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Author : Anuman Rajadhon (Phrayā)
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ISBN 13 : 9786165510318
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Essays on Thai Folklore written by Anuman Rajadhon (Phrayā) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anuman Rajadhon (Phrayā)
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ISBN 13 : 9789743152290
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Essays on Thai Folklore written by Anuman Rajadhon (Phrayā) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : ʻAnumānrātchathon (Phrayā)
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Download or read book Essays on Thai Folklore written by ʻAnumānrātchathon (Phrayā) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phraya Anuman Rajadhon
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Total Pages : 15 pages
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Download or read book Thet-Maha-Chat, from Essays on Thai Folklore written by Phraya Anuman Rajadhon and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 383 pages
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Download or read book Anuman Rajadhon Essays on Thai Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Walton
Publisher : Jareuk Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book A Northern Miscellany written by Geoffrey Walton and published by Jareuk Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thapanī Nākhō̜nthap
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Essays on Cultural Thailand written by Thapanī Nākhō̜nthap and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on Thai culture by Phy Anuman Rajadhon.
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Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Thai Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009014838
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book A History of Thailand written by Chris Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social, and cultural history.
Author : Christopher John Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107420210
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book A History of Thailand written by Christopher John Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. This book explores how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree peasants was transformed and examines how the monarchy managed the foundation of a new nation-state at the turn of the twentieth century. The authors capture the clashes between various groups in their attempts to take control of the nation-state in the twentieth century. They track Thailand's economic changes through an economic boom, globalisation and the evolution of mass society. This edition sheds light on Thailand's recent political, social and economic developments, covering the coup of 2006, the violent street politics of May 2010, and the landmark election of 2011 and its aftermath. It shows how in Thailand today, the monarchy, the military, business and new mass movements are players in a complex conflict over the nature and future of the country's democracy.
Author : Bodhiraṃsi
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791437766
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (377 download)
Download or read book The Legend of Queen Cāma written by Bodhiraṃsi and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English translation and a commentary on the chronicle of Queen Cama, an important but neglected female monarch who founded a dynasty in Northern Thailand.
Author : Katherine A. Bowie
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299309509
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Of Beggars and Buddhas written by Katherine A. Bowie and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of subversive, ribald variations of the most important story in Theravada Buddhism.
Author : Barend Jan Terwiel
Publisher : Galda Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3962032983
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The ‘Soul’ of the Tai re-examined. written by Barend Jan Terwiel and published by Galda Verlag. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khwan is certainly one of the most enigmatic concepts one encounters in the study of the Tai-speaking world. Variously rendered as ‘soul’, ‘vital principle’ or ‘life essence’, the concept eludes unambiguous translations as Western ontologies and the languages that reproduce them simply lack an analogous signifier. While a lot has been written on khwan, it seems that little progress was made in understanding their place in Tai conceptualisations of personhood and sociality. One reason for this may be that authors addressing khwan in their scholarship are frequently referring to the same seminal publications while ignoring others. This fostered a quasi-canonical understanding of what khwan are that is rarely critically scrutinised. With this edited volume we seek not only to honour Barend Jan (Baas) Terwiel, but also to problematise this conventional understanding of what khwan are. In the field of Tai Studies, Baas’ name stands out as a beacon of knowledge and understanding, illuminating the rich tapestry of Thailand’s history, culture, and society. Through meticulous scholarship and a profound love for the subject, Baas has left an indelible mark on the field, enriching our understanding of Thailand in ways that go beyond the surface. Join us on a journey through texts Baas has written over 50 years in order to explore what khwan are and how Tai-speakers all over the Tai-speaking world interact with them in order to strengthen their well-being and maintain personhood. Our goal with this volume is to make Baas scholarship on khwan more easily available and thus to celebrate his remarkable contributions to the world of Tai Studies. Therefore, we have edited, commented, and streamlined his original and sometimes hard to find texts and ordered them in a way that allows readers to better understand khwan as well as their similarities and differences all over the Tai-speaking world.
Author : Pattana Kitiarsa
Publisher : Silkworm Books
ISBN 13 : 1630417572
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Mediums, Monks, and Amulets written by Pattana Kitiarsa and published by Silkworm Books. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediums, Monks, and Amulets is a sophisticated yet accessible study of the state of popular Buddhist beliefs as they are practiced in Thailand today. Using a combination of focused case studies and analysis, Pattana Kitiarsa explores the nature and evolution of popular Buddhism over the past three decades by focusing on those individuals who practice, popularize, and profit from it. The case studies profiled in this book include prominent spirit mediums and magic monks, the lottery fever surrounding the posthumous cult of folk singer, Phumphuang Duangchan, the Chatukham‐Rammathep amulet craze, and the cult of wealth attributed to preeminent monk, Luang Pho Khun. It also explores the history of both popular and official opinion surrounding supernatural Buddhism and its clashes with the rationalist, modernizing policies of Thailand’s monarchy and government. Mediums, Monks, and Amulets contests the viewpoint that supernatural elements within popular Buddhism are a symptom of the decline of the religion. Instead, it argues that this hybridity between traditional Buddhist beliefs and elements from other religions is in fact a symptom of the health and wealth of Buddhism, as it negotiates large‐scale commercialization and global modernity. What others are saying “Pattana Kitiarsa’s ability to weave his personal experiences in with sophisticated anthropological methods makes this book a fascinating and moving read. It is a welcome addition to the field and should be read by everyone interested in religion and modernity in Southeast Asia and beyond.”—Justin McDaniel, author of Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words (2008) and The Lovelorn Ghost and Magical Monk (2011) “Medium, Monks, and Amulets sheds light on the changing landscape of contemporary Thai religion that is increasingly influenced by ‘prosperity cults’ from both inside and outside the Buddhist establishment. This book helps us to make sense of the religious universe, where magic monks, spirit mediums, amulets, deities, and other religious commodities of different sorts keep appearing endlessly.”—Phra Paisal Visalo Highlights • Focused case studies on individual cult practices, including magic monks, spirit mediums, amulet cults, and other prosperity cults • Written by the perspective of an anthropologist who is also a follower of popular Buddhism • Discusses not only the interaction of popular Buddhist practices with modern‐day lawmakers, but also of nineteenth‐century royal interaction with supernatural cults
Author : Charles F Keyes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000314456
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Thailand written by Charles F Keyes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thailand is exceptional among modern states in Asia in that it has built and retained a national culture around a traditional monarchical institution. Moreover, this culture has also been based on a dominant religious tradition, that of Theravada Buddhism. The process of creating the modern nation-state of Thailand out of the traditional Buddhist kingdom of Siam began in the nineteenth century when the rulers of Siam, confronted with increasing pressure from the colonial powers of Britain and France, were able to preserve their country's independence by instituting revolutionary changes that established the authority of a centralized bureaucracy throughout the country. The new state asserted its authority not only over Siamese who lived in the core area of the old kingdom but also over large numbers of Lao, Yuan or Northern Thai, Khmer, Malays, tribal peoples, and other groups, all of which had previously enjoyed relative autonomy, and over the sizable immigrant Chinese population, which was assuming an increasingly significant role in the economy. Because the rulers of the Siamese state strove to incorporate these diverse peoples into a Thai national community, how this community should be defined and what type of state structure should be linked with it have been dominant questions in modern Thai history. Significant tensions have arisen from the efforts by members of the Thai elite to make the monarchical traditions of the Bangkok dynasty, Buddhism, and the central Thai language basic to Thai national culture. Other tensions have arisen as monarchy, military, bureaucracy, the Buddhist sangha, business interests, and elected political representatives assert or maintain an authoritative position in the state structure. This book examines these tensions with reference to the major changes that have taken place in Thai society, economy, polity, and culture in the twentieth century, especially since World War II.
Author : Shi-xu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110199785
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Read the Cultural Other written by Shi-xu and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the Cultural Other contains studies on non-Western discourse. It has two principal aims. Firstly, it argues that the study of non-Western, non-White, and Third-World discourses should become a legitimate, necessary, and routine part of international discourse scholarship. Hitherto, non-Western, non-White, and Third-Word discourses have been relegated and marginalized to a 'local', 'particular', or 'other' place in (or, one might argue, outside) the mainstream. To reclaim their place, the book deconstructs the rhetoric of universalism and the continued preoccupation with Western discourse in the profession, and stresses the cultural nature of discourse, both ordinary and disciplinary, as it outlines a culturally pluralist vision. Secondly, in order to take the multicultural view seriously, it explores the complexity, diversity, and forms of otherness of non-Western discourse by examining the case of China and Hong Kong's discourses of the decolonization of the latter. Far too often, non-Western discourse has been stereotyped as externally discrete, internally homogeneous, and formally containable within a 'universal', 'general', or 'integrated' model. The present work focuses on China and Hong Kong's discourses, which have been marginalized by their Western counterparts. Through culturally eclectic linguistic analysis and local cultural analysis, it identifies and highlights the specific ways of speaking of China and Hong Kong - their concepts, concerns, aspirations, resistance, verbal strategies, etc. - with respect to similar or different issues. The culturally pluralist view and analytical practice proffered here call for a radical cultural change in international scholarship on language, communication, and discourse.
Author : Tiyavanich Kamala
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824817817
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Forest Recollections written by Tiyavanich Kamala and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I stayed [in the forest] for two nights. The first night, nothing happened. The second night, at about one or two in the morning, a tiger came--which meant that I didn't get any sleep the whole night. I sat in meditation, scared stiff, while the tiger walked around and around my umbrella tent (klot). My body felt all frozen and numb. I started chanting, and the words came out like running water. All the old chants I had forgotten now came back to me, thanks both to my fear and to my ability to keep my mind under control. I sat like this from 2 until 5 a.m., when the tiger finally left." --A forest monk During the first half of this century the forests of Thailand were home to wandering ascetic monks. They were Buddhists, but their brand of Buddhism did not copy the practices described in ancient doctrinal texts. Their Buddhism found expression in living day-to-day in the forest and in contending with the mental and physical challenges of hunger, pain, fear, and desire. Combining interviews and biographies with an exhaustive knowledge of archival materials and a wide reading of ephemeral popular literature, Kamala Tiyavanich documents the monastic lives of three generations of forest-dwelling ascetics and challenges the stereotype of state-centric Thai Buddhism. Although the tradition of wandering forest ascetics has disappeared, a victim of Thailand's relentless modernization and rampant deforestation, the lives of the monks presented here are a testament to the rich diversity of regional Buddhist traditions. The study of these monastic lineages and practices enriches our understanding of Buddhism in Thailand and elsewhere.
