State power and culture in Thailand
By: edited by E. Paul Durrenberger.
Contributors: Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943-
Series: Monograph / Yale Southeast Asia Studies ;; 44; Monograph series (Yale University. Southeast Asia Studies) ;; no. 44.
Publisher: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies; Yale Univ Southeast Asia Studies
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Power (Social sciences) -- Thailand.; Social interaction -- Thailand.; Political anthropology -- Thailand.; State-local relations -- Thailand.; Thailand -- Rural conditions.; Thailand -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The power of culture and the culture of states / E. Paul Durrenberger; title: Nurturance and reciprocity in Thai studies / Penny Van Esterik; title: Tarnishing the Golden Era : aesthetics, humor, and politics in Lakhon Chatri dance-drama / Mary L. Grow; title: Rice, rule, and the Tai state / Richard A. O'Connor; title: Slavery in nineteenth-century northern Thailand : archival anecdotes and village voices / Katherine A. Bowie; title: Households and villages : the political-ritual structures of Tai communities / Nicola Tannenbaum; title: Rhetorics and relations : Tai states, forests, and upland groups / Hjörleifur R. Jónsson.