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Cultural Crisis and Social Memory Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos. It explicates the ways in which social memory constructed by the people enters modernity, and how this in turn causes fundamental ruptures with their past, as well as the various ways cultural crises are experienced in their lives. The essays in this book consider how in these crises the people... Read more
Part I. Ritual, Spirit mediumship, and the Politics of the Past Part II. Cultural Crisis and the Re-framing of Thai-ness Part III. On the Margins of the Thai World Reflections by Masato Fukushima, International University of Japan
Biography
Charles F. Keyes, Shigeharu Tanabe
'This volume offers a fine collection of essays on the complex and ever-evolving issue of social memory.' - Asian Journal of Social Science
