Download or read book The Lampang Field Station written by Søren Egerod and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lampang field Station a Scandinavian research centre in Thailand 1969 1974 reports ed written by Soren Egerad and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lampang Field Station a Scandinavian research center in Thailand 1969 1974 reports written by Søren Egerod and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lampang Assessment written by Søren Egerod and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation in 1969 of a field research station near Lampang in northern Thailand by the recently established Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies was something of a gamble. The Vietnam War was spreading into Laos and Cambodia with a communist insurgency also growing in Thailand, not least in the north. Some scholars feared being compromised by Cold War schemes and maneuvers. Yet in the five years of the station's existence a large number of Nordic scholars, often in partnership with Thai and other foreign colleagues, undertook research based at Lampang. Significant new research was initiated here, including archaeological excavations that rewrote the prehistory of mainland Southeast Asia and a mapping of the folklore and languages of upland minorities that helped decipher the linguistic history of the region's lowland majority peoples. Following the closure of the station in 1974, an assessment of the project was made and combined with an extensive collection of papers based on research carried out at Lampang. The resulting volume had a limited circulation, a situation remedied by the publication of this revised and updated edition. In a critical introduction, the new volume considers the research station in its time, a period of war and of cultural and political turmoil, an age when the academic world was being transformed by an influx of baby-boomer students, and a moment just before the advent of mass travel. Besides retrieving a lost collection of scholarly research, the volume offers insights for the equally massive changes sweeping higher education today.
Download or read book Counterheritage written by Denis Byrne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The claim that heritage practice in Asia is Eurocentric may be well-founded, but the view that local people in Asia need to be educated by heritage practitioners and governments to properly conserve their heritage distracts from the responsibility of educating oneself about the local-popular beliefs and practices which constitute the bedrock of most people’s engagement with the material past. Written by an archaeologist who has long had one foot in the field of heritage practice and another in the academic camp of archaeology and heritage studies, Counterheritage is at once a forthright critique of current heritage practice in the Asian arena and a contribution to this project of self-education. Popular religion in Asia – including popular Buddhism and Islam, folk Catholicism, and Chinese deity cults – has a constituency that accounts for a majority of Asia’s population, making its exclusion from heritage processes an issue of social justice, but more pragmatically it explains why many heritage conservation programs fail to gain local traction. This book describes how the tenets of popular religion affect building and renovation practices and describes how modernist attempts to suppress popular religion in Asia in the early and mid-twentieth century impacted religious ‘heritage.’ Author Denis Byrne argues that the campaign by archaeologists and heritage professionals against the private collecting and ‘looting’ of antiquities in Asia largely ignores the regimes of value which heritage discourse has helped erect and into which collectors and local diggers play. Focussing on the Philippines, Thailand, and Taiwan but also referencing China and other parts of Southeast Asia, richly detailed portraits are provided of the way people live with ‘old things’ and are affected by them. Narratives of the author’s fieldwork are woven into arguments built upon an extensive and penetrating reading of the historical and anthropological literature. The critical stance embodied in the title ‘counterheritage’ is balanced by the optimism of the book’s vision of a different practice of heritage, advocating a view of heritage objects as vibrant, agentic things enfolded in social practice rather than as inert and passive surfaces subject to conservation.
Download or read book Being Kammu written by Damrong Tayanin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining autobiography and ethnography, Damrong Tayanin examines the lifestyles, customs, practices, and beliefs of the Kammu people by describing his own early experiences.
Download or read book NIAS Report written by Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facing the Spirits written by Arne Kalland and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foundations of Tropical Forest Biology written by Robin L. Chazdon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a timely collection of pioneering work in the study of these diverse and fascinating ecosystems. It consists of facsimiles of papers chosen by world experts in tropical biology as the 'classics' in the field.
Download or read book Newsletter written by Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk Tales from Kammu VI written by Kristina Lindell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the tales of a Kammu folklore teller from the North Eastern Muan Khwa region of Laos. It contains 19 stories, all annotated from both cultural and folklore aspects and illustrated by a young Kammu artist, and including one story given in the original language with an interlinear translation.
Download or read book Linguistic Diversity and National Unity written by William A. Smalley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-06-15 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other multi-ethnic nations, such as Myanmar and India, where official language policy has sparked bloody clashes, Thailand has maintained relative stability despite its eighty languages. In this study of the relations among politics, geography, and language, William A. Smalley shows how Thailand has maintained national unity through an elaborate social and linguistic hierarchy. Smalley contends that because the people of Thailand perceive their social hierarchy as the normal order, Standard Thai, spoken by members of the higher levels of society, prevails as the uncontested national language. By examining the hierarchy of Thailand's diverse languages and dialects in light of Thai history, education, culture, and religion, Smalley shows how Thailand has been able to keep its many ethnic groups at peace. Linguistic Diversity and National Unity explores the intricate relationship between language and power and the ways in which social and linguistic rank can be used to perpetuate order.
Download or read book The Journal of the Siam Society written by Siam Society and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Bureaucracy and Capitalism in Rural West Java written by Thommy Svensson and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indonesia and Malaysia written by Thommy Svensson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asian Perspectives written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia written by Karl Hutterer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic behavior is governed by two major sets of boundary conditions: environmental and technological factors on the one hand, and conditions of social organization on the other hand. Indeed, social scientists are often particularly interested in the framework of exchange relationships: exchange of goods, services, personnel, and information. Economic exchanges lend concrete manifestations to social relations that themselves may transcend the economic realm and that otherwise are often difficult to trace. Yet in social science research in Southeast Asia, the area of economic studies has lagged behind, despite the great study potential represented by the tremendous diversity of its physical and human environment. Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia attempts to take advantage of that opportunity. As a number of the contributions to this volume show, many if not most of the systems organized on very different levels of integration interact with each other. Taken as a whole, they provide evidence of the incredible diversity of economic and social systems that may be investigated in Southeast Asia.
