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Titillating Tales from Northern Thailand
Brun, Viggo
2017. 263pp.
ISBN: 9789747534559 (WH Code E22715)

US$16.50

Titillating Tales from Northern Thailand is an unusual and fascinating collection oftales from Northern Thailand containing - besides myths, legends, trickster tales, fairy
tales, anecdotes etc - also a number of tales where sex is a central theme. The authorof this volume spent several years in a Northern Thai village in the 1970ties, and waslucky to become friend with masterful storytellers, who loved to make their audiencelaugh, thus they also included tales relating in various ways to sex, such as how amarried man living in the house of his wife's parents, is attracted to his wife's younger
sister, and how he can have intercourse with her; or that celibate Buddhist monks still
may have strong sexual desires, and in what ways they can have these desires fulfulled. In fact, the stories
demonstrate how supposedly respecful people do not always behave respectfully or that they are simply rather stupid
and do not diserve respect, thus many of the victims of trickery are in fact persons of authority. The stories give anrare insight into several aspects of Northern Thai sociey as well as Northern Thai oral tradition and humour.

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Thai Soaps : An Analysis of Thai Television Dramas : Thai Popular Culture Vol.2
Jaiser, Gerhard.
2017. 240pp., 16pp.illus. in illus.
ISBN : 9789747534412 (WH Code E22714)

US$23.00

Thai Soaps, An Analysis of Thai Television Dramas is the first study to describe their full significance as a culturespecific narrative formula. Thai soap operas are one of the most prominent aspects of present-day Thai popularculture. Based on a substantial corpus, the book analyses form and development, depiction of minorities,
controversies over the impact of Thai soaps on public morality, and other important issues.

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The Directory for Bangkok and Siam 1913
Bangkok Times Press. 2017. 395 pp.
ISBN : 9789747534726 (WH Code E22717)

US$32.00

The Directory for Bangkok and Siam 1913 is one of a series that Bangkok Time Press
produced over a period of many years. The originals are fairly rare, as they were printed onacidic paper, which becomes brittle. Therefore, most originals have deteriorated or been
destroyed. This reprint in slightly reduced form tries to preserve the valuable information about
people active in Bangkok at that time, before the First World War. It is a must for Thai studies.

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The Directory for Bangkok and Siam 1925
Bangkok Times Press. 2017. 371 pp., 1 map.
ISBN : 9789747534696 (WH Code E22716)

US$29.00

The Directory for Bangkok and Siam 1925 is one of the thirty six editions published. It is a rarebook and the paper of the original is brittle and therefore hard to find. It is a source book oflife and business in Bangkok at the time. It contains the useful information one needed at thattime and all the foreigners who worked in Bangkok in different fields as well as all thecompanies are listed. It also has over 60 pages of advertising of the important companies atthat time. It appears here in a slightly reduced format

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Ancient Postcards on Rice in the Golden Peninsula
Poupon, Roland.
2016. 241 pp., illus.
ISBN : 9789748495934 (WH Code E22704)

US$25.00

Poupon, Roland; Ancient Postcards on Rice in the Golden Peninsula focuses on ricecultivation in mainland Southeast Asia, encompassing Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos,and Myanmar. Through the analysis of old postcards, this book shows all aspects of riceculture from landscaping to trading, including land preparation, irrigation, sowing andtransplantation, harvesting and threshing, postharvest processes, transportation, sales andconsumption, but it also speaks about people, their homes, and their rituals

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Asean Looks West: Asean and the Gulf Region
Hermann, Wifried A. & Peter Lehr.
2016. 288 pp., 12 pp. illus., 3 pp. maps.
ISBN : 9789745341081 (WH Code E22710)

US$20.00

ASEAN Looks West: ASEAN and the Gulf Region is the first major study analyzing therelationship between ASEAN and the Gulf region. A newly formed international team of
eleven scholars and experts from seven different countries under the umbrella of the Thairegistered nonprofit organization Human Development Forum Foundation provides someinteresting insights in security and economic developments on both sides of the newly
introduced Southern Asian Maritime Corridor (SAMCO) stretching from Qatar to thePhilippines. This concept is presented to the international academic community as well as policy makers to shedsome light on this new corridor, and fill the knowledge gap in ASEAN about the Gulf region and vice versa.

2WH07The Evolution of Thai Money
Ronachai Krisadaolarn. 2016. 270 pp., 245 pp. illus. in col, included DVD.
ISBN : 9786167339733 (WH Code N4103/1)

US$83.00

This book is the result of over 40 years of study of the various forms of Thai money fromtheir origins in the ancient kingdoms and empires starting with Funan up to theintroduction of the modern decimal system of baht and satang. As such it represents asupplement to his and Vasilijs Mihailovs’ award-winning book, Siamese Coins – FromFunan to the Fifth Reign, and includes hundreds of additional coins illustrated in various
aspects. This work covers the production of pressed silver coins; the use of metallic
ingots known as toks; elongated silver bars commonly known as tiger tongues; bent
ingots known as chiang money; metalic alloy, glass and porcelain tokens and most famously pot duang, commonly
called bullet money because of their shape.

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Karen Language PhraseBook: Basics of Sgaw Dialect
Rhoden, T. F. 2016. 126 pp., 19 pp. illus.
ISBN : 9789748495996 (WH Code E22707)

US$12.00

Comprehensive guide to the basics of Sgaw dialect of Karen language. Learn key phrases
and words to use with any Karen companion, whether they live in Myanmar, Thailand, or
wherever in the world. Phrasebook is for more than just learning to survive in a Karenspeaking environment. The goal is also to help you make new friends

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The Nagas: Memories of headhunters, Indo-Burmese Borderland Vol.1
Drouyer, Isabel Azevedo & Rene.
2016. 267 pp., 272 images, 112 figures, 160 plates.
ISBN : 9782954511221 (WH Code E22713)

US$42.00'THE NAG AS - Memories of Headhunters - Indo-Burmese Borderlands - Volume 1'gives voice to the last protagonists of an almost vanished world. For the first time,
former Naga headhunters and families talk extensively about their past, their fears
and their hopes. Based on fieldwork and in-depth interviews conducted in Myanmar
and on the Indian states of Nagaland, Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, thisbook gives a unique insight into the world of the Naga tribes and illustrates one of
the last living examples of traditional culture. The mountain ranges situated between
the far north-eastern part of India and the extreme northeast of Myanmar (Burma)
house an incredible people of Tibeto-Burman origin, the Nagas. The number oftribes comprising the Nagas may vary among different scholars, but they arebelieved to include between 12 and 30 groups, with the major ones being theAngami, Ao, Lotha, Chakhesang, Konyak, Rengma, Sangtam, Yimchungru, Zeliangrong, Nocte, Phom,Khiamniungan, Pochuri,Tangkhul and Sema. These groups inhabit both sides of the Indo-Burmese borders in theNaga Hills, a sub-Himalayan region characterized by thick jungles and rugged mountains, known as 'the last mysteryof Asia'.

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The Politics of (No) Elections in Thailand : Lessons from the 2011 General election
King Prajadhipok's Institute Years No. 6
Merieau, Eugenie.
2016. 278 pp.
ISBN : 9789747534245 (WH Code E22711)

US$23.00

The book was borne out of the idea that the 2011 election represents a paradigm shift in the history of Thai electoralpolitics. Data collected by King Prajadhipok’s Institute before and after the 2011 election, mostly through face-to-faceinterviews, came to substantiate this claim. The data paints a picture of a well-informed and mature Thai electorate
in all parts of the kingdom. Contrary to the conclusions drawn by some earlier research, the data here shows that themost knowledgeable and most informed of all voters in Thailand are northeastern people, outperforming voters inBangkok in their knowledge of the candidates and the issues by a signifi cant margin. In other words, the scholars inthis book argue against the traditional anti-election discourse, which assumes alleged ignorance on the part of Thai
voters (especially in the Northeast) and compares provincial members of Parliament to wild animals. Yet suchdiscourse is still vivid today.

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Royal Siamese State Railway Southern Line 1917
Ministry of Communication.

2016. 215 pp., illus, 3 pp. folded maps.

ISBN : 9789748495316 (WH Code E22700)

US$28.00

The seven parts deal with
1 Souvenir of the Opening of the Royal Siamese State Railway, Southern Line, 1917
2 Royal State Railways Siam, Southern Line, 19153 Photographs Relating to the Siamese Railway, 1898-1904
4 Railway Stations
5 Thirtieth Annual Report on the Administration of the Royal State Railways, 1917,
Southern Line part
6 Administration Report for the Year 2460 (List of fired German Railway Engineers in 1917)
7 Siam State Railways, South Express (1922)

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Something Else Again
Matics, Kim.
2016. 574 pp.
ISBN : 9789747534382 (WH Code E22712)

US$32.00

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Tending the Spirits: The Shamanic Experience in Northeastern Laos: Studies in the Material Cultures of Southeast Asia No. 20
Findly, Ellison Banks. 2016. 266 pp., fully illus. in col.
ISBN : 9789748495712 (WH Code E22708)

US$42.00

This study of shamans in northeastern Laos details the call, training, and ritual practiceof female and male healers, as well as of male funeral shamans who guide thedeceased's spirit to heaven. Based almost exclusively on interviews with shamans andweavers in mountain and urban villages of Hua Phan province, Tending the Spirits:
The Shamanic Experience in Northeastern Laos does what no other book has done
before. It draws information almost entirely from the oral tradition of the shamans
themselves, illuminating the multivalent complexities of belief and practice as they evolve over time. The relation
between the shaman and the weaver is a symbiotic one, with the shaman chanting out visual images in his trance
narrative, and the weaver translating what she hears into mythic, hybrid images on the loom.

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Traditional Thai Medicine: Buddhism, Animism, Yoga, Ayurveda
Salguero, C. Pierce.
2016. 136 pp., 17 pp. illus, 1 map.
ISBN : 9789747534078 (WH Code E22709)

US$17.00

Traditional Thai Medicine, Revised Edition presents readers with the definitive
overview of the history and contemporary practice of TTM. This is an updated, reorganized, and mostly re-written edition of the 2007 book that provided Englishlanguage readers with the first comprehensive overview of traditional Thai medicine
in print. The culmination of two decades of field study, academic research, andteaching experience, this book approaches TTM from an academic perspective, but
it is geared toward practitioners, tourists, and general readers. It provides a broadbrush history of Thai medicine from ancient times to the present day, and describes
in detail the unique synthesis of healing practices that is found today across Thailand.

WH14Unseen Siam - Early Photography 1860-1910
Bautze, Joachim K.
2016. 364 pp., 704 photographs.
ISBN : 9786167339665 (WH Code N4597)

US$69.00

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WH15Bangkok Tramways Eighty Years 1888-1968
Spek, Dick Van Der, Wisarut Bholsithi & Wally Higgins.
2015. 180 pp., 65 pp. illus., 56 pp. in col., 24 pp. map,
ISBN : 9789748495371 (WH Code E22701)

US$32.00

Trams of Bangkok, Eighty Years 1888-1968, is the first work tracing the history of tramsin Bangkok, a pioneering work with Danish and Belgian involvement. Thailand was thesecond country in Southeast Asia with trams. First, horse-drawn trams appeared in
1888. But as horse-drawn trams were not very suitable in the tropics, they werereplaced in 1893 by electric trams. (In that same year, the French attacked Siam inwhat became known as the Paknam Incident.) The resulting electric tram company,
with its own generators, was one of the oldest in Southeast Asia. The Dutch introduced trams in Batavia (Jakarta) in
1869. Singapore followed in July 1905, after having experimented with electric tramways in 1891 and 1892. In 1893,
Bangkok had a population of 250,000. The trams became quite popular with the people. The author made new
drawings of all the tram lines. He has located the best information available on the electric tram cars, as the archives
are poor.

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Contemporary Laos: Development path and Outlook of a Nation
Kham Vorapheth.
2015. 632 pp., 1 map.
ISBN : 9789748495859 (WH Code E22705)

US$28.00

Contemporary Laos: Development Path and Outlook of a Nation provides a critical lookat obstacles to the development of the Laos state. It explores different facets of its
political, economic, societal, and cultural history and focuses on the current period ofunfinished transition. The author offers an analysis of the geopolitical position of Laos, its
relations with the global powers and with its ASEAN partners, and its efforts to maintainequilibrium with Vietnam and China. Once known as the kingdom of Lane Xang, Laos
was a backwater during French colonial times and was often called the “forgotten country”
during the two Indochina wars. It became the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on December 2, 1975. The country
has slowly rebuilt itself after different wars (colonial and civil) over the past century, which considerably curbed its
cultural and economic development. A member of ASEAN since 1997 and the World Trade OrganizationsinceFebruary 2013, Laos plays an active role today as a partner in the regional economic community.

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Eating in Northeastern Cambodia, A Socio-Anthropological Approach
to Highland Food in Ratanakiri
Istasse, Manon.
2015. 417 pp., 64 pp. illus. in col., 2 pp. maps.
ISBN : 9789748495453 (WH Code E22703)

US$22.00

Eating in Northeastern Cambodia. A Socio-AnthropologicalApproach to Highland Food inRatanakiri investigates food among societies practicing swidden agriculture in Ratanakiriprovince, Northeastern Cambodia. The author provides a qualitative and anthropologicaldescription of food habits, practices and representations among these non-Khmer(Kreung, Tampuan, Kavet and Jaraï) populations who live in small, dispersed villages.
Her investigation questions the relevance of the concept of affluent societies in contemporary Ratanakiri.

6WH18A History of the Thai-ChineseSng, Jeffery & Pimpraphai Bisalputra.

WH19Land and River Grabbing the Mekong's Greatest
Challenge
Chayan Vaddhanaphuti & Sabrina Gyorvary

2015. 448 pp., illus., 73 pp.

202 pp., 26 pp., illus., 8 pp. maps

ISBN : 9789814385770 (WH Code N4513)

ISBN : 9789746729819 (WH Code N4488)

US$43.00

US$15.00

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Lao Postcards by Alfred Raquez: A Collection of His 166 Postcards
from 1906
Ande, Diethard. 2015. 334 pp., illus., 32 pp. in col.
ISBN : 9789748495590 (WH Code E22681)

US$48.00

Lao Postcards by Alfred Raquez is a first attempt to bring together the 166 postcards
that were produced in six series of 25 each as Collection Raquez and 16 out-of-series
postcards produced by Decoly as Cliché Raquez and later also under his brand La
Pagode. Raquez was the first traveler who systematically made photos in Laos around1900. He made seven trips in Laos; the longest journey was seven months. The result
was his record Pages Laotiennes, available now in English translation as Around Laosin 1900: A Photographer's Adventures. A pictorial book with only his several hundred photos on Laos is available asvolume 2 of Around Laos in 1900. Raquez organized the Lao Pavilion at the 1906 Marseille Exhibition, showing hislarge collection of textiles and artifacts gathered from around Laos.

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Policing in Colonial Burma
Hanwong, Lalita Hingkanonta.

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Revolving Doors: A NovelMatics, Kim.

2015. 200 pp., 6 pp. illus.

398 pp.

ISBN : 9789746729710 (WH Code N4487)

ISBN : 9789748495408 (WH Code N4477)

US$15.00

US$22.00

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Sacred Caves of Tam Ting (Pak On), Luang Prabung, Laos: Mystery, Splendor, and Desecration
Egloff, Brian & Kristin Kelly.
2015. 166 pp., illus., 32 pp. in col.
ISBN : 9789748495682 (WH Code E22706)

US$17.00

Sacred Caves of Tam Ting (Pak On), Luang Prabung, Laos: Mystery, Splendor, andDesecration is the story of the eaves, of the collabora¬tive international conservation
project, and of what happened after the project closed in 1997. It places the caves incontext and explains their significance and beauty. The book is both a cautionary tale
about the importance and fragility of material cultural heritage, and a message of hopefor the future of heritage conservation in the region. The Tam Ting (Pak Ou) Caves, arelocated some twenty-five kilometers north of the World Heritage Site of Luang Prabang(Laos).

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Twentieth Century Impressions Of Burma : Its History, People, Commerce, Industries,
And Resources
Wright, Arnold & H. A. Cartwright & O. Breakspear.
2015. 416 pp., illus.
ISBN : 9789748495231 (WH Code E22698)

US$58.00

Twentieth Century Impressions of Burma is part of a series on the British Empire thatdeals with the empire’s history, people, commerce, industries, and resources. Thispublication is one of a now lengthy series, designed to give a literary survey of thevarious component parts of the British Empire and of leading countries in which British
capital was extensively invested, or in which British political interests were centered.
(Twentieth Century Impressions of Siam was also reprinted by White Lotus.)8