Cultural Crisis and Social Memory - Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos

This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos.

List of contents

Part I. Ritual, Spirit mediumship, and the Politics of the Past Part II. Cultural Crisis and the Re-framing of Thai-ness Part III. On the Margins of the Thai World Reflections by Masato Fukushima, International University of Japan

About the author

Charles F. Keyes, Shigeharu Tanabe

Summary

This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos.

Product details

• Authors: Charles F. Keyes, Keyes Charles F., Shigeharu Tanabe, Tanabe Shigeharu
• Assisted by: Charles F. Keyes (Editor), Keyes Charles F. (Editor), Shigeharu Tanabe (Editor), Tanabe Shigeharu (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2002
• EAN: 9780700711758
• ISBN: 978-0-7007-1175-8
• No. of pages: 324
• Weight: 960 g
• Series: Anthropology of Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Thailand, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian History, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)