Book Number: 5 733

Manas Chitakasem & Andrew Turton

THAI CONSTRUCTIONS OF KNOWLEDGE

A collection of 10 articles:

• State poetics and civil rhetoric: an introduction to “Thai constructions of Knowledge”-Andrew Turton

• Sedition in Thai history: a nineteenth-century poem and its critics - Craig J. Reynolds

• Poetic conventions and modern Thai poetry - Manas Chitakasem

• Siburapha: the making of a literary reputation - David Smyth

• Economic thought in early twentieth-century Siam - Ian Brown

• Warasan setthasat kanmu'ang: critical scholarship in post-1976 Thailand - Hong Lysa

• The 'community culture' school of thought - Chatthip Nartsupha

• Mu'ang and pa: élite views of nature in a changing Thailand - Philip Stott

• Invulnerability and local knowledge - Andrew Turton

• Spirits, power, and the discourse of female gender: the phi meng cult in northern Thailand - Shigeharu Tanabe

(London 1991)

220 pp., 160 x 250 mm, pbk.

25.- US-Dollar

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