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Culture and Customs of Thailand

Author : Arne Kislenko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313058385
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Customs of Thailand written by Arne Kislenko and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-05-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thailand is rapidly industrializing, dramatically improving the living standards of its people, and gradually developing a more democratic society. Despite such profound changes, traditional Thai culture has not only survived, but has also, in many respects, prospered. Although famous for its food, and despite its increasing popularity as a tourist destination, Thailand remains relatively unknown to most Westerners. Culture and Customs of Thailand presents the traditional culture and customs against the backdrop of modern times. Thailand has always been an important Southeast Asian country. With a long-reigning monarchy, it is the only country in the region that has never been colonized by a Western power or suffered bloody revolutions and wars. It was the first Asian country to establish diplomatic relations with the United States, and has remained a constant ally. Thailand has emerged as a considerable economic force as the world's largest rice and rubber producer and remains a regional political power. Against this historical framework, Kislenko deftly introduces the traditional and modern strands of the dominant Buddhist faith and other religions, such as animism. Coverage includes literature, the arts, architecture-including the Thai Wat-food and dress, gender and marriage, festivals and fun, and social customs. Kislenko also balances the portrait with discussions of threats from globalization, AIDS and sex tourism, the drug trade, and corruption in business and government. Evocative photos, a country map, a timeline, and a chronology complete the coverage. This reference is the best source for students and general readers to gain substantial, sweeping insight into the Thais and their land of smiles.

Very Thai

Author : Philip Cornwel-Smith
Publisher : River Books Press Dist A C
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Very Thai written by Philip Cornwel-Smith and published by River Books Press Dist A C. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering insight into contemporary Thai folk culture delves beyond the traditional Thai icons to reveal the casual, everyday expressions of Thainess that so delight and puzzle. From floral truck bolts and taxi altars to buffalo cart furniture and

Thai Massage & Thai Healing Arts

Author : Bob Haddad
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1844099067
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Thai Massage & Thai Healing Arts written by Bob Haddad and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating anthology presents a much wider scope than other books on Thai massage, and uncovers a wealth of previously unavailable information on the historical, spiritual, and cultural connections to this powerful healing art. Topics include ways to refine and maintain a healthy practice, breathwork and body mechanics, self-protection techniques, reading body language, acupressure concepts, and Thai herbal compress therapy. The spiritual and cultural section offers modern translations of ancient texts, Indian and Buddhist influences, magic amulets and sacred tattoos, and accessory modalities such as reusi dat ton (stretching) and tok sen (hammering therapy). Rounding out this thorough text, the final section features essays about actual practice with clients, written by therapists and teachers from around the world. The extensive experience and information provided in this reference book is invaluable to students or practitioners who wish to deepen their personal and professional understanding of traditional Thai healing arts.

Culture and Communication in Thailand

Author : Patchanee Malikhao
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811041253
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Communication in Thailand written by Patchanee Malikhao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features research papers that examine a host of contemporary issues in Thailand. Coverage includes culture, gender violence, tourism, human trafficking, environmental and ecological issues, sustainability and the sufficiency economy, the (mis)handling of elephants, and more. It features a sociological and anthropological perspective with a dash of communication for sustainable social change. The papers investigate the various phases of communication technology and its impact on cultural change in the country. They explore the use of social networks and privacy issues as well as ethical journalism in the contexts of Thai Buddhism, Thai culture, and other enabling environmental factors. The contributors focus on documentary research of both quantitative and qualitative data on Thai social change as a consequence of globalization and digital technology. They first provide a general overview of social media and communication in the country. Next, the authors go on to explore the specifics of digital communication. This includes a look at its impact on the various ways of Thai communication given politico-economic and religious influences.

Thai Art and Culture

Author : Henry Ginsburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Thai Art and Culture written by Henry Ginsburg and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lavishly illustrated new study, Henry Ginsburg describes a wide range of Thai manuscripts and other documents in European and North American collections, discussing each in its religious and historical context. It contains an impressive compilation of maps, letters, photographs, and manuscripts that will make it a valuable reference tool for the Southeast Asia scholar, while its colorful illustrations will appeal to a wider audience interested in Thai culture.

Thai Culture and Behavior

Author : Ruth Benedict
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Thai Culture and Behavior written by Ruth Benedict and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thai Culture in Transition

Author : William Klausner
Publisher : Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Thai Culture in Transition written by William Klausner and published by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). This book was released on 1997 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Monastery, Monument, Museum

Author : Maurizio Peleggi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824866096
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Monastery, Monument, Museum written by Maurizio Peleggi and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging across the longue durée of Thailand’s history, Monastery, Monument, Museum is an eminently readable and original contribution to the study of the kingdom’s art and culture. Eschewing issues of dating, style, and iconography, historian Maurizio Peleggi addresses distinct types of artifacts and artworks as both the products and vehicles of cultural memory. From the temples of Chiangmai to the Emerald Buddha, from the National Museum of Bangkok to the prehistoric culture of Northeast Thailand, and from the civic monuments of the 1930s to the political artworks of the late twentieth century, even well-known artworks and monuments reveal new meanings when approached from this perspective. Part I, “Sacred Geographies,” focuses on the premodern era, when religious credence informed the cultural alteration of landscape, and devotional sites and artifacts, including visual representation of the Buddhist cosmology, were created. Part II, “Antiquities, Museums, and National History,” covers the 1830s through the 1970s, when antiquarianism, and eventually archaeology, emerged and developed in the kingdom, partly the result of a shift in the elites’ worldview and partly a response to colonial and neocolonial projects of knowledge. Part III, “Discordant Mnemoscapes,” deals with civic monuments and artworks that anchor memory of twentieth-century political events and provide stages for both their commemoration and counter-commemoration by evoking the country’s embattled political present. Monastery, Monument, Museum shows us how cultural memory represents a kind of palimpsest, the result of multiple inscriptions, reworkings, and manipulations over time. The book will be a rewarding read for historians, art historians, anthropologists, and Buddhism scholars working on Thailand and Southeast Asia generally, as well as for academic and general readers with an interest in memory and material culture.

Night Market

Author : Ryan Bishop
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415914291
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Night Market written by Ryan Bishop and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Thai Folklore

Author : Sirāphǭn Thitathān Na Thalāng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thai Folklore written by Sirāphǭn Thitathān Na Thalāng and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture Shock!

Author : Robert Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Culture Shock! written by Robert Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand

Author : Anjalee Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351127721
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand written by Anjalee Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand examines how young people in urban Chiang Mai construct an identity at the intersection of global capitalism, state ideologies, and local culture. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic research, the book explores the impact of rapid urbanisation and modernisation on contemporary Thai youth, focusing on conspicuous youth subcultures, drug use (especially methamphetamine use), and violent youth gangs. Anjalee Cohen shows how young Thai people construct a specific youth identity through consumerism and symbolic boundaries – in particular through enduring rural/urban distinctions. The suggestion is that the formation of subcultures and “deviant” youth practices, such as drug use and violence, are not necessarily forms of resistance against the dominant culture, nor a pathological response to dramatic social change, as typically understood in academic and public discourse. Rather, Cohen argues that such practices are attempts to “fit in and stick out” in an anonymous urban environment. This volume is relevant to scholars in Thai Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Urban Studies, and Development Studies, particularly those with an interest in youth, drugs, and gangs.

Luk Thung

Author : James Leonard Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786162151064
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Luk Thung written by James Leonard Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on author's doctoral thesis, Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, 2012.

ประมวลความเรียงเบ็ดเตล็ด

Author : Robert B. Jones
Publisher : Southeast Asia Program Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780877275039
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book ประมวลความเรียงเบ็ดเตล็ด written by Robert B. Jones and published by Southeast Asia Program Publications. This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a Thai-English glossary of over 3,500 words.

The Thai World

Author : John Hoskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906780661
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Thai World written by John Hoskin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ____Thailand and Thai culture are exotic. In spite of the effects of mass tourism and globalization, Thailand is unusual in that it preserves much of its unique traditional culture very largely intact. This compelling collection of articles aims to highlight facets of Thai life, aspects that in most cases are readily seen and yet are defining in their own way of the 'Thainess' that indelibly stamps the culture of a country and a people so fascinating and, ultimately, so endearing. The articles are grouped by themes covering The Buddhist World; The Supernatural World; The Ceremonial World; The Festive World; The Natural World; The Art World; The Sporting World and The Changing World. They reflect the author's long fascination with the country - he has lived there since 1979 - for him it is the unexpected that underscores precisely what the city and Thai culture as a whole is all about - the ability to constantly surprise, to offer fresh encounters - as this fascinating book gradually reveals.

Thai for Beginners

Author : Paiboon Publishing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781887521413
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Thai for Beginners written by Paiboon Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Thai language software available on the market! Designed especially for non-romanized written Thai to help you to rapidly improve your listening and reading skills! Over 3,000 recordings of both male and female voices. The content is similar to the book Thai for Beginners, but with interactive exercises and much more instantly useful words and phrases. Multiple easy-to-read font styles and sizes. Super-crisp enhanced text with romanized transliteration which can be turned on or off for all items.

Woman, Man, Bangkok

Author : Scot Barmé
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Woman, Man, Bangkok written by Scot Barmé and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early decades of the twentieth century, Thailand's capital, Bangkok, took on an increasingly cosmopolitan character-a development fueled both by global economic forces and a local revolution in communications. The 1920s were a particularly dynamic period of social and cultural transformation that had a profound impact on the development of Thai modernity. This book examines the growth of a polyphonous and often vociferous Thai public, a public that used a range of new media outlets to express themselves and clamor for a more just and equitable social order. Scot Barmé mines a rich lode of previously ignored cultural ephemera found in popular newspapers, magazines, novels, short stories, film booklets, and cartoons to create a vibrant cultural history of early modern Thailand that moves beyond conventional, elite-based historical studies of the period. By focusing on such controversies and conflicts as the status of women, relations between the sexes, class antagonisms, and the growth of a commercial mass culture, this book offers a new interpretation of the key decade of the 1920s and its significance for contemporary Thailand.