Download or read book Nirat Phra Prathom written by Sunthō̜n Phū and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English translation of the Thai poem about the Buddhist monastery in Nakhon Pathom Province, Central Thailand.
Download or read book Holy Things written by Nathan McGovern and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common religious practice in Buddhist Thailand is asking "holy things" for help in return for an offering. These holy things include local spirits, Hindu gods, and famous Buddha images, which Thai people worship all in the same way. Some people, and even Thai Buddhists themselves, have argued that this is "syncretism"--a mixture of religions. Holy Things shows that what appears to be syncretism is actually an illusion. The worship of "holy things" is not a mixture of different religions, but the category of "holy things" is a mixture of different ways of talking about religion.
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.
Download or read book Through Travellers Eyes written by B. J. Terwiel and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Histories of Health in Southeast Asia written by Tim Harper and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. In that period, epidemic and chronic diseases, environmental transformations, and international health institutions have created new connections within the region and the increased interdependence of Southeast Asia with China and India. In this volume leading scholars provide a new approach to the history of health in Southeast Asia. Framed by a series of synoptic pieces on the "Landscapes of Health" in Southeast Asia in 1914, 1950, and 2014 the essays interweave local, national, and regional perspectives. They range from studies of long-term processes such as changing epidemics, mortality and aging, and environmental history to detailed accounts of particular episodes: the global cholera epidemic and the hajj, the influenza epidemic of 1918, WWII, and natural disasters. The writers also examine state policy on healthcare and the influence of organizations, from NGOs such as the China Medical Board and the Rockefeller Foundation to grassroots organizations in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Download or read book Pen and Sail written by Nithi ʻĪeosīwong and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nidhi Eoseewong is the most innovative, famed, and controversial Thai historian of his generation. This book founded his reputation and is the first of his major works to appear in English. On its publication in Thai, he was immediately hailed as "a major historian, the most capable of the present era." Pen and Sail combines intellectual history and economic history. Nidhi argues that the emergence of a market economy in the early Bangkok era (1782-1855) was the driving force behind a major change in mentality and worldview seen in poetry, early prose works, biographies of the Buddha, scripts for chanting the Jataka tales, language primers, manuals of behavior, and revisions of the royal chronicles. Nidhi Eoseewong's outstanding career as a historian and leading public intellectual was recognized by award of the prestigious Fukuoka Asia Prize in 2000.
Download or read book Nirat Muang Klaeng written by Sunthō̜n Phū and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Phra Abhai Mani written by Prince Prem Purachatra and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phadaeng Nang Ai written by Wayuphā Thotsa and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first English translation of an Isan folk epic is both readable and faithful to the linguistic features of the Thai original. It is presented together with a thorough discussion of the historical background, explanatory material, and a glossary of Thai-Isan terms.
Download or read book Traditional and Changing Thai World View written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On fourteen UNESCO-honoured Thai authors and their literary work.
Download or read book The Journal of the Siam Society written by Siam Society and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traditional and Changing Thai World View written by Amara Pongsapich and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles on Thai traditional culture.
Download or read book Traveller s Literary Companion to South east Asia written by Alastair Dingwall and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skøn- og faglitterære tekster der beskriver Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia (Kampuchea), Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesien, Philippinerne og Hong Kong
Download or read book Thai Literary Traditions written by Manat Chitakasem and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen papers on Thai literature presented at Fifth International Conference on Thai Studies held at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, July 1993.
Download or read book Orient Review and Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes special numbers.
