Fishermen of South Thailand
Subtitle: the Malay villagers
By: by Thomas M. Fraser, Jr.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Malays (Asian people) -- Thailand, Southern; Thailand, Southern -- Social life and customs
Notes: Bibliography: p. 109-110.
Table of contents: title: The village and its context -- Making a living. The yearly cycle of fishing and rice cultivation-- Plantations in a cash economy -- Economic specialists and the market town -- The web of life. The family and household -- The Kampong : neighbors and kinsmen -- The region : kin and ceremonial networks -- Maintaining control. The “good man” and his influence -- The tambon and the village headman -- District, changwat, and nation -- Dealing with the supernatural. Spirits, illness, and the bomo -- Fasts, feasts, and the imam -- Religion and the crises of life -- Learning to live in Rusembilan. Basic values and early training -- Education : informal, formal, and national -- Adult status : a resolution of contradictions -- The changing scene. Technological change and community integration -- Economic change : from sea to jungle -- The government and planned change -- Minority groups and national security -- Glossary -- References cited -- Recommended reading.