Village Vignettes: Portraits of a Thai Village

This series-of. "portraits" of the people who comprise the mosaic of a typical northeastern Thai village describes such characters as the "half Chinese," the "fortune teller," "Miss Cotton Bud: ' "native entrepreneur: ' and "Bar Boy." Interspersed between these portraits are "themes: ' such as gambling. Songkran celebrations, electricity, and noise, providing an informative overview of the background, activities, and infrastructure of village life. The sum of these vignettes, based on the author's keen observations while living in just such a village as he describes, is an image of the constant struggle between traditional village values and the often disruptive influences of modern technology and mores.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Smithies, Uthai Traisiwakul
• Publisher: Kodansha Europe Head Office
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 210 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic