Imagining Communities in Thailand

Explores emerging communities and the practices, knowledge, and power relations that can no longer be explained adequately by the conventional conception of community. This work focuses on the processes of 'imaging communities' to explore how people imagine and create their own sense of knowledge, power, and identity.

About the author

Shigeharu Tanabe is professor of anthropology at Otani University, Kyoto. He is the coeditor (with Charles F. Keyes) of "Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos."

Product details

• Assisted by: Shigeharu Tanabe (Editor)
• Publisher: Silkworm Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education