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Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History

March 22, 2015

A history analyzing the relationship between Thais and Chinese immigrants in Thailand. Published in 1957, it includes a contemporary description of Chinese society in Thailand at a time when China was a newly-emerged major Communist power. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book’s (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of the same title. Sale Price:buy at […]
Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess

March 22, 2015

If you thought you knew the story of Anna in The King and I, think again. As this riveting biography shows, the real life of Anna Leonowens was far more fascinating than the beloved story of the Victorian governess who went to work for the King of Siam. To write this definitive account, Susan Morgan […]
Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand: Essays on the History and Historiography of Patani

March 22, 2015

At the heart of the ongoing armed conflict in southern Thailand is a fundamental agreement about the history of relations between the Patani Malays and the Thai kingdom. While the Thai royalist-nationalist version of history regards Patani as part of that kingdom “since time immemorial,” Patani Malay nationalists look back to a golden age when […]
Imagining the Course of Life: Self-transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community

March 22, 2015

“Imagining the Course of Life” offers a rich portrait of rural life in contemporary Southeast Asia and an accessible introduction to the complexities of Theravada Buddhism, as it is actually lived and experienced. It is both an ethnography of indigenous views of human development and a theoretical consideration of how any ethnopsychology is embedded in […]
The Buddha on Mecca’s Verandah: Encounters, Mobilities, and Histories Along the Malaysian-Thai border (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies)

March 22, 2015

The Buddha on Mecca’s Verandah examines the many ways in which people living along an international border negotiate their ethnic, cultural, and political identities. This ethnography of a small community of Thai Buddhists in the Malaysian state of Kelantan draws on rich, original vignettes to show how issues such as territoriality, identity, and power frame […]
We Shared The Peeled Orange: The Letters of "Papa Louis" from the Thai-Cambodian Border Refugee Camps 1981-1993

March 22, 2015

Book by Braile, Louis, American Refugee Committee Sale Price:$30.94 0929636341
Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800

March 22, 2015

In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While acknowledging the merits of this scholarship, Sheldon Pollock argues that knowing how colonialism changed South Asian cultures, particularly how Western modes of thought became dominant, […]
Man Behind the Bridge: Colonel Toosey and the River Kwai

March 22, 2015

Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey was the senior British officer concerned with the building of the notorious “Bridge over the River Kwai”. This responsible and dangerous position forced him to make many critical decisions, but his dilemma was not that presented by Pierre Boulle in his fictional work. Toosey understood form the very beginning that he […]
The Boys in Black: Thahan Phran (Rangers), Thailand’s Para-Military Border Guards

March 22, 2015

This is a study of the Rangers, a volunteer organization founded by the Royal Thai Army in 1978 to combat communist insurgency. They have since become responsible for first-line defense of Thailand’s border: fighting intruding armed forces, such as the ethnic insurgent armies and the drug trafficking groups in the Thai-Burma borderlands; guarding refugee camps; […]
The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

March 22, 2015

The central actors in this book are some reclusive forest-dwelling ascetic meditation masters who have been acclaimed as ‘saints’ in contemporary Thailand. These saints originally pursued their salvation quest among the isolated villages of the country’s periphery, but once recognized as holy men endowed with charisma, they became the radiating centres of a country-wide cult […]

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