Change and persistence in Thai society
Subtitle: essays in honor of Lauriston Sharp
By: edited by G. William Skinner and A. Thomas Kirsch.
Contributors: Sharp, Lauriston.; Skinner, G. William 1925-; Kirsch, A. Thomas.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Social classes -- Thailand -- History; Ethnology -- Southeast Asia; Thailand -- Social conditions
Notes: Bibliography: p. 359-379.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Note on transcription.; title: Griswold, A. B. and Prasert Ṇa Nagara.  On kingship and society at Sukhodaya.; title: Akin Rabibhadana. Clientship and class structure in the early Bangkok period.; title: Wyatt, D. K. Education and the modernization of Thai society.; title: Moerman, M. Chīangkham's trade in the "old days".; title: Kirsch, A. T. Economy, polity, and religion in Thailand.; title: Hanks, L. M. The Thai social order as entourage and circle.; title: Ingersoll, J. Merit and identity in village Thailand.; title: Condominas, G. Phībān cults in rural Laos.; title: Keyes, C. F. Kin groups in a Thai-Lao community.; title: Piker, S. The post-peasant village in central plain Thai society.; title: Phillips, H. P. The culture of Siamese intellectuals.