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Author : William Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789812329264
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Spiritual Abodes of Thailand written by William Warren and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Reichart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Spirit Houses of Thailand written by Peter Reichart and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anuar bin Abdul Rahim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Thailand written by Anuar bin Abdul Rahim and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie E. Sponsel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Spiritual Ecology written by Leslie E. Sponsel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent scientist and scholar documents and explains the thoughts, actions, and legacies of spiritual ecology's pioneers from ancient times to the present, demonstrating how the movement may offer the last chance to restore a healthy relationship between humankind and nature. An internet search for "Spiritual Ecology" and related terms like "Religion and Nature" and "Religion and Ecology" reveals tens of millions of websites. Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution offers an intellectual history of this far-reaching movement. Arranged chronologically, it samples major developments in the thoughts and actions of both historic and contemporary pioneers, ranging from the Buddha and St. Francis of Assisi to Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement and James Cameron's 2010 epic film Avatar. This foundational book is unique in that it provides a historical, cross-cultural context for understanding and advancing the ongoing spiritual ecology revolution, considering indigenous and Asian religious traditions as well as Western ones. Most chapters focus on a single pioneer, illuminating historical context and his/her legacy, while also connecting that legacy to broader concerns. Coverage includes topics as diverse as Henry David Thoreau and the Green Patriarch Bartholomew's decades-long promotion of environmentalism as a sacred duty for more than 250 million members of the Orthodox Church worldwide. For more information, visit www.spiritualecology.info.
Author : Erik H. Cohen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0080467369
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Explorations in Thai Tourism written by Erik H. Cohen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intends to contribute to the formation, embodiment, and advancement of knowledge in the field of tourism. This series includes application of theoretical, methodological, and substantive contributions from such fields as anthropology, business administration, ecology, economics, geography, history, hospitality, leisure, and planning.
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Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 : 9780679750635
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Thailand written by and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1993 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They burst with architectural illustrations, silvery photos, busy drawings, literary quotes, gallery tours, street maps and more." -- "People Remote mountain villages, crowded bazaars and golden spires are all part of the spectacle of Thailand. Dramatic ruins, monuments and temples are set in landscapes that range from broad plains and rice fields to orchid-filled jungles and steep, wooded mountains. One of the most exciting destinations in the world, Thailand will fascinate and entertain you with its exotic beauty and culture. Travel to the awe-inspiring Grand Palace in Bangkok and the sandy islands of Phi Phi and Phuket. Witness the ancient elephant ceremonies of Surin, and learn all about the famous Floating Market in Bangkok. Explore the ancient city of Chiang Mai with its colorful festivals, night bazaar and sacred "wats. You can even study domestic and religious Thai architecture in page after page of rich illustrations and cross-sections. Learn about the Rama dynasty, the many costumes of the king, temple offerings and protocol, and even savory Thai recipes through detailed and historical and culture sections.
Author : Pattana Kitiarsa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113407445X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Religious Commodifications in Asia written by Pattana Kitiarsa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the growing academic concerns of the market-religion convergences in Asia. Bringing together a group of leading scholars from Asia, Europe, Australia and North America, it discusses multiple issues regarding religious commodifications and their consequences across Asia’s diverse religious traditions. Covering key issues in the anthropology and sociology of contemporary Asian religion, it draws theoretical implications for the study of religions in the light of the shift of religious institutions from traditional religious beliefs to material prosperity. The fact that religions compete with each other in a ‘market of faiths’ is also at the core of the analysis. The contributions show how ordinary people and religious institutions in Asia adjusted to, and negotiated with, the penetrative forces of a global market economy into the region’s changing religio-cultural landscapes. An excellent contribution to the growing demands of ethnographically and theoretically updated interpretations of Asian religions, Religious Commodifications in Asia will be of interest to scholars of Asian religion and new religious movements.
Author : James O'Reilly
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 1932361804
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Travelers' Tales Thailand written by James O'Reilly and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book, this newly designed collection paints a unique portrait of a complex and captivating land. One contributor lives as a monk for a month, gaining an inside look at monastic life. Another discovers Bangkok’s riverine pleasures, a world away from its car-choked streets. Yet another finds refuge as the houseguest of an isolated tribesman. Through these engaging personal stories, readers witness how Thailand satisfies just about any traveler’s hunger for the exotic, the beautiful, the thrillingly different. Writers include Pico Iyer, Norman Lewis, Diane Summers, Simon Winchester, Ian Buruma, Thalia Zepatos, and Tim Ward. “The breadth and color of the collective portrait [the contributors] provide of Thailand is remarkable.” — Los Angeles Times
Author : Jerry Hopkins
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462900038
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Bangkok Babylon written by Jerry Hopkins and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the colorful tradition of Orwell and Hemingway, Jerry Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling twenty-five of the city's most unforgettable characters. In 25 vivid profiles, Hopkins explores what motivates people to leave home and the unforeseen adventures that can befall them once abroad. Hopkin's knack for the biography is evident in his coverage of individuals ranging from famous performers to ordinary businesspeople. The 25 true stories include the lives of: The Real Colonel Kurtz? --An American soldier who allegedly was the model for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. The Oscar Winner --An acclaimed screenwriter who moves to the city of Bangkok to die. Urban Gorilla Priest --A Catholic priest who founded Mercy Centre in one of the city's harshest slums. The Odd Couple -- A circus clown turned computer programmer turned restaurateur. Professor Elephant-- A documentary filmmaker living with elephants. All of these individuals "escaped" to Thailand to re-invent themselves and live out their fantasies in one of the world's most notorious cities. Bangkok Babylon shares their exciting true stories, many of which are stranger than fiction.
Author : Andrew Walker
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299288234
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Thailand’s Political Peasants written by Andrew Walker and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a populist movement elected Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister of Thailand in 2001, many of the country’s urban elite dismissed the outcome as just another symptom of rural corruption, a traditional patronage system dominated by local strongmen pressuring their neighbors through political bullying and vote-buying. In Thailand’s Political Peasants, however, Andrew Walker argues that the emergence of an entirely new socioeconomic dynamic has dramatically changed the relations of Thai peasants with the state, making them a political force to be reckoned with. Whereas their ancestors focused on subsistence, this generation of middle-income peasants seeks productive relationships with sources of state power, produces cash crops, and derives additional income through non-agricultural work. In the increasingly decentralized, disaggregated country, rural villagers and farmers have themselves become entrepreneurs and agents of the state at the local level, while the state has changed from an extractor of taxes to a supplier of subsidies and a patron of development projects. Thailand’s Political Peasants provides an original, provocative analysis that encourages an ethnographic rethinking of rural politics in rapidly developing countries. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in Ban Tiam, a rural village in northern Thailand, Walker shows how analyses of peasant politics that focus primarily on rebellion, resistance, and evasion are becoming less useful for understanding emergent forms of political society.
Author : Marlane Guelden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Thailand Into the Spirit World written by Marlane Guelden and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marlane Guelden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Thailand written by Marlane Guelden and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Author : William Warren
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861894449
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Bangkok written by William Warren and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Warren’s Bangkok is an informal portrait of this most vibrant and perplexing of modern cities. Divided into two parts, the first is a selective history, showing how Bangkok has developed over the last 200 years, while the second explores the contemporary face of the city through a series of personal impressions. The author explains how the charms of Bangkok and its people outweigh the disadvantages of pollution, traffic and stifling heat. He also introduces celebrities, such as the early kings of Thailand’s present dynasty and Anna Leonowens, heroine of The King and I, as well as Jim Thompson, the US-born silk entrepreneur and art collector who mysteriously vanished in the jungles of Malaysia. Bangkok provides a much needed history of the city, but is also imbued with the warmth of Warren’s love affair with its frenetic way of life.
Author : Barry Michael Broman
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612008976
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Risk Taker, Spy Maker written by Barry Michael Broman and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Broman’s true tales of putting his life on the line recruiting and running spies in a dozen countries are the stuff of action movies.” —Peter Arnett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Live from the Battlefield Joining the CIA after fighting in Vietnam as a Marine, Barry Broman’s first posting was war-torn Cambodia. He was present at the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975, escaping just before the Khmer Rouge took power. During his career, he was twice chief of station, once a deputy chief of station, and he supervised an international paramilitary project in support of the Cambodian resistance to Vietnamese invaders. He was actively involved in several assignments in counter-narcotics operations in Southeast Asia including a major bust that yielded 551 kilograms of high-grade heroin from a major drug trafficker. His favorite agent against a variety of hard targets was a fellow whose only demand was that his assignments be “life threatening.” (He survived them all.) As amazing as the characters Broman has met are the places he’s been, with visits to little-known and rarely seen places like the Naga Hills on the India–Burma border, the world-famous but off-limits jade and ruby mines of Burma, and the isolated Banda Islands of Indonesia, the home of nutmeg. Broman’s engaging tone is complemented by photographs taken throughout his career, many of them his own, made using the skills he learned as a teenager working for the Associated Press in Southeast Asia—including Marines in action in Vietnam, the ravages of war in Cambodia, and opium buyers forcing growers to sell in Burma. “[A] remarkable life story.” —Booklist
Author : Peter A. Jackson
Publisher : NIAS Press
ISBN 13 : 8776943089
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (769 download)
Download or read book Deities and Divas written by Peter A. Jackson and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2022-01-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In central Thailand, a flamboyantly turbaned gay medium for the Hindu god of the underworld posts Facebook selfies of himself hugging and kissing a young man. In Myanmar’s largest city Yangon, a one-time member of a gay NGO dons an elaborate wedding dress to be ritually married to a possessing female spirit; he believes she will offer more support for his gay lifestyle than the path of LGBTQ activism. The only son of a Chinese trading family in Bangkok finds acceptance for his homosexuality and crossdressing when he becomes the medium for a revered female Chinese deity. And in northern Thailand, female mediums smoke, drink, flaunt butch masculine poses and flirt with female followers when they are ritually possessed by male warrior deities. Across the Buddhist societies of mainland Southeast Asia, local queer cultures are at the center of a recent proliferation of professional spirit mediumship. Drawing on detailed ethnographies and extensive comparative research, Deities and Divas captures this variety and ferment. The first book to trace commonalities between queer and religious cultures in Southeast Asia and the West, it reveals how modern gay, trans and spirit medium communities all emerge from a shared formative matrix of capitalism and new media. With insights and analysis that transcend the modern opposition of religion vs secularity, it provides fascinating new perspectives in transnational cultural, religious and queer studies.
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Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
ISBN 13 : 9814385743
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book 7 Days in Myanmar written by and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2014 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely isolated from the world for more than four decades, Myanmar has made a remarkable return to the global stage following a political transformation that represents a watershed moment in the country's history. Now, for the first time ever, the rich culture, stunning landscapes and diverse peoples of the country are presented in a unique visual time capsule. Here is the new Myanmar as seen over a single week by a team of thirty famous photographers from eleven different countries. Their mission? To capture the life and spirit of Myanmar from every angle in every corner of the country. Through the downtown streets of Yangon and the handicraft centres of Mandalay, above the temple-dotted plains of Bagan and on the waters of Inle Lake, inside border towns and hilltribe villages and all the way to the furthest reaches of the north and south. The portrait they created reveals a nation full of natural beauty, old-world charm, deep spirituality and new hope. Featuring essays that provide context on Myanmar’s history and culture and hundreds of outstanding original photographs, 7 Days in Myanmar shows why the world is watching Myanmar and why Myanmar is ready for the world.
Author : Harvey Henry Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Area Handbook for Thailand written by Harvey Henry Smith and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
