Hill Tribes/Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity
| Item title | Author | Description | Language | Accession Number |
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| Sexuality: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow That Will Never Be the Same | Compiles Thai translated articles on sexuality, reflecting sexuality in the past, present, and future. Discusses sexuality in relation to time and space, media study, Michel Foucault's concept, and the concept of binary opposition. Covers the articles on Thai Women in Late Ayutthaya Style Paintings Intersections of Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality among Middle-and Upper-Class Chinese Immigrants in Bangkok , Cyberdiscourse on Thai Women , a ...Continue Reading | Thai | 74067 | |
| Democratization and Identity: Regimes and Ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia | Reviews the experiences of the studies on the East and Southeast Asian societies, related to politicial regimes and ethnic identities beyond the Asian values debate. Explores the argument that ethnically divided societies cannot afford to democratize if they want interethnic peace, citing the case of Taiwanese national identity, and political economy and cultural politics of ethnic conflict in Asia. Considers politics of recognition in contem ...Continue Reading | English | 74018 | |
| Democratization and Identity: Regimes and Ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia | Reviews the experiences of the studies on the East and Southeast Asian societies, related to politicial regimes and ethnic identities beyond the Asian values debate. Explores the argument that ethnically divided societies cannot afford to democratize if they want interethnic peace, citing the case of Taiwanese national identity, and political economy and cultural politics of ethnic conflict in Asia. Considers politics of recognition in contem ...Continue Reading | English | 74018 | |
| Ethnicity and Urban Life in China: A Comparative Study of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese | Xiaowei, Zang | Presents a sociological analysis of Hui Muslims in contemporary China, employing both qualitative and quantitative data derived from fieldwork in Lanzhou between March 2001 and July 2004. Looks at the contrast between the urban life of the Han people, the ethnic majority in the city of Lanzhou, and the Hui people, the largest ethnic minority in the city. Assesses the link between minority ethnicity and traditional behavior in urban sociology an ...Continue Reading | English | 73976 |
| Commonplaces and Comparisons: Remarking Eco-Political Spaces in Southeast Asia | Cuasay, Peter | Raises questions about theory and practice within and outside the commons by analyzing how notions of commons and common property resources (CPRs) have been translated into concepts, and how CPRs has altered resource management policy and practices. Studies CPRs through territorialization, and discusses commonplaces in terms of narrating, titling, reforming and flowing. Examines governance as moral narrative, mentioning case studies on crisis o ...Continue Reading | English | 73745 |
| Social Identity and Preferences | Benjamin, Daniel J | Examines in two laboratory experiments whether norms associated with one's social identity affect time and risk preferences. Describes a theoretical framework on identity and priming effects by Performing social-category-salience manipulations in the laboratory and testing the casual effect of ethnic, racial, and gender category norms on time and risk preferences. Presents the first experiment on ethnic priming effects among Asian-Americans, a ...Continue Reading | English | 73717 |
| Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia | Considers how colonial armies are the focal points for dramatic tensions inherent in Chinese, Japanese, and Western clashes with Southeast Asia. presents an exploration from Ming China to the present day, examining their conquests, management, and decolonisation. Studies imperial systems of power, colonial forces and the making of modern Southeast Asia. Looks at Ming Chinese colonial armies in Southeast Asia. Deals with tools of conquest and ...Continue Reading | English | 73588 | |
| Social Dynamics in the Highlands of Southeast Asia: Reconsidering Political Systems of Highland Burma | Leach, E.R | Reappraises Edmund Leach's study to mark to 50th anniversary of his publication entitled Political Systems of Highland Burma : A Study of Kachin Social Structure . Examines historical contexts of Leach's fieldwork, looking at the biographical origins of political systems of highland Burma, Kachin studies, and anthropological context of ethnicity. Analyzes Leach's comparative approaches in Assam and Laos, dealing with organizations and politica ...Continue Reading | English | 73575 |
| South Asia in the Context of Ethnicity and Religion | Compiles five papers on South Asia in the context of ethnicity and religion. Studies conflicts between minority groups in South Asia, exploring the characteristics of religions, ethnicities and races of the people in South Asian countries. Identifies the root causes and history of major conflicts among minority groups and countries in South Asia. Examines the ethnic conflict between Sinhala and Tamil in Sri Lanka, explaining the main character ...Continue Reading | Thai | 73533 | |
| Intra-Ethnic Conflict and the Hmong in Australia and Thailand | Downman, Scott Andrew | Investigates the issue of intra-ethnic conflict or an ethnic community in conflict with itself, exploring the cases of Hmong in two different contexts : Australia and Thailand. Looks at the causes and impacts of intra-ethnic conflict within these different contexts. Discusses the impacts of social and religious change in Hmong communities by looking at issues related to inter-ethnic relations, modernization, and globalization. Contextualizes t ...Continue Reading | English | 73461 |
| Situation of Human Rights Violation of Highland Tribal and Ethnic Population in Thailand | Provides information and numbers of highland Tribal and ethnic population as reported by Department of Provincial Administration, Ministry of Interior in 2000. Considers government policy and measures related to these groups of people, based on the Master Plan for community and environmental development and narcotic plant control. Reveals the conflicts between the government and the highland people, regarding natural resource utilization, ecolo ...Continue Reading | Thai | 73355 | |
| Once Upon a Time: Toward Myth and Culture | Pathom Hongsuwan | Presents guidelines and methodology for the study of myths within the dimension of cultural studies. Studies the relations between myth and identity and ethnicity, focusing on the use of myth for managing the group of Tai-Thai, for building historical consciousness among Thai Puan and Phu Thai in Thailand, and for reflecting the ethnic relations between the Tai and Thai people. Examines myth in relations to gender and discources, dealing with t ...Continue Reading | Thai | 72748 |
| Once Upon a Time: Toward Myth and Culture | Pathom Hongsuwan | Presents guidelines and methodology for the study of myths within the dimension of cultural studies. Studies the relations between myth and identity and ethnicity, focusing on the use of myth for managing the group of Tai-Thai, for building historical consciousness among Thai Puan and Phu Thai in Thailand, and for reflecting the ethnic relations between the Tai and Thai people. Examines myth in relations to gender and discources, dealing with t ...Continue Reading | Thai | 72748 |
| The Outsiders | Sanitsuda Ekachai | Deals with the background of the Mlabri known as the Spirits of the Yellow Leaves or Pi Tong Lueng in Thai living in a few districts in Phrae and Nan provinces. Indicates their insurmountable problem on land and forest access because of the authority and modernism. Describes the problem of injustice and state's unfair system of natural resource management. Illustrates detailed information on the Mlabri's living conditions, their struggle for s ...Continue Reading | English | 72710 |
| Myanmar: State, Society and Ethnicity | Studies topical questions about Myanmar in relation to the broader Southeast Asian context. Deals with issues of historical influence and political considerations that have shaped the dominant thinking within the state and the military. Considers political economy of the state and the level of human security in the country, examing the general welfare of Myanmar citizens on the basis of seven criteria, i.e. economic security, food security, hea ...Continue Reading | English | 72644 | |
| Across the Horizon: 60 Years of Shigeharu Tanabe | Compiles articles presented at the conference on Cultural Study and Knowledge Creation in Thai Society , which was held on the 60th anniversary of Professor Shigeharu Tanabe in 2004. Highlights his contribution to anthropology in Thai society, including 10 articles written by Thai scholars in the areas of Professor Tanabe's interest. Covers the studies on rituals, social recollection, new types of communities in relation to health, ethnicity, ...Continue Reading | Thai | 72624 | |
| Singapore in 2006: An Irritating and Irritated ASEAN Neighbor | Chua Beng Huat | Describes Singapore with the 2006 general election, the victory of People's Action Party (PAP), and political role of the PAP government. Considers the political consequence of a major investment in Thailand mode by a Singapore government corporation, Temasek Holdings, during the Thaksin's government. Looks at the cases of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings, including ethnic Chinese in Malaysia and Indonesia, the haze ...Continue Reading | English | 72534 |
| Malaysia in 2006: An Old Tiger Roars | Derichs, Claudia | Briefs Malaysia's politics in 2006, focusing on the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP) under the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmed Badawi and the confrontation with the former head of government Mahatir Mohamad, inter-ethnic relations and religious conversion, and price hikes for fuel. Presents the economic stability, related to the country's inflation, exchange rate, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), foreign direct investment (FDI), and Free Trade ...Continue Reading | English | 72531 |
| Ancient Thai Letters: Lai Sue Thai and Evolution of Letters of Thai Ethnicity | Thawat Punnothok | Provides basic information on ancient letters, describing the development from cuneiforms, hieroglyphs, Chinese letters, to Indian letters. Examines Thai letters before Sukhothai Period as well as letters in stone inscriptions, explaining orthography of Thai letters from Sukhothai to Rattanakosin Period. Studies Khmer letters in Thai language, covering Yuan Lanna alphabets and Thai Fakkam alphabets of North Thailand, Dhamma and Thai Noi alphabe ...Continue Reading | Thai | 72047 |
| The Mekong Basin: Crisis-Development-Alternatives | Compiles the panel discussions and papers delivered at the conference, introducing a special lecture on economic dimensions of China. Discusses the free trade area, considering the Mekong river basin in the aspects of history and economy. Studies the development at the upper and lower Mekong river basin, dealing with infrastructure projects and Mekong ecology. Considers ethnic diversity in the area and the problems of human trafficking. Discu ...Continue Reading | Thai | 72034 |
