Northern Thai Peasant Society
Author : Andrew Turton
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Peasants
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Author : Andrew Turton
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Peasants
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Author : Andrew Turton
Publisher :
Page : 1344 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 1975
Category :
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Author : Andrew G. W. Turton
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 1975
Category :
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Author : Andrew Turton
Publisher :
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Social change
ISBN :
Author : Philip Hirsch
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9089642498
This volume traces the threads that tie together an understanding of Thailand as a dynamic and rapidly changing society, through an examination of the work of one major scholar of the country, Andrew Turton. Turton's anthropological studies of Thailand cover a wide spectrum from politics and economy to ritual and culture, and have been crucial in shaping evolving understandings of Thai society. In this collection, ten leading specialists on Thailand from a variety of disciplines critically consider aspects of Turton's work in relation to the changing nature of different aspects of Thai society. The book tracks the links between past and present scholarship, examines the contextuality of scholarship in its times, and sheds light on the current situation in Thailand.
Author : Graham Fordham
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782387145
Following the detection of the first HIV infections in the early 1980s, by the 1990s Thailand was routinely depicted as having the world’s fastest moving HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, by the early 2000’s the bulk of scholarly and medical AIDS literature portrayed the epidemic as being largely under control, and claimed that Thai AIDS prevention efforts during the 1990s had been successful. Based on long-term ethnographic research conducted in Northern Thailand this book makes an in-depth study of the social construction of Thailand’s HIV/AIDS epidemic over this period. In addition to his own field research the author draws on an extensive corpus of English and Thai language social science and medical HIV/AIDS literature to examine the modeling of Thailand’s AIDS epidemic, and addresses concepts and issues such as risk groups, risk behaviour, alcohol use, gender and class, masculinity, the scapegoating of female prostitutes and men in the underclass, the reporting of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand’s indigenous Thai language media, and sexual activity amongst Thai youth. The analysis demonstrates the contribution of anthropology as an interpretative social science, and the use of anthropological theory and research methods, to finding alternative ways of framing the problems of Thai AIDS and of posing new questions that will lead to more effective points of intervention. It emphasises the necessity for critically reflexive approaches that question the ‘taken for granted’ and demonstrates how qualitative research techniques guided by social theory have the potential to take account of local meanings in complex social contexts where traditional values and cultural practices are rapidly transforming due to economic and social change. The book offers a sustained and powerful criticism of the limitations of the normative model of the Thai AIDS epidemic and, in its aim of promoting critically reflexive AIDS research techniques in order to produce a better understanding of issues ‘on the ground’ and hence better health policy and more effective AIDS interventions, speaks not only to the Thai AIDS epidemic but to AIDS epidemics throughout Southeast Asia and elsewhere. This is the only English language study of Thailand’s HIV/AIDS epidemic to draw on long-term qualitative research in Northern Thailand as well as on a broad range of Thai (and some Khmer language) materials. Its contextualised and subtly nuanced analysis of the AIDS epidemic and of the impact of AIDS control initiatives, in concert with the theoretical and methodological contributions it makes to AIDS research and policy and behavioural interventions, makes it a timely publication of vital interest to scholars in the social sciences, as well as to the members of non-governmental organisations and international organisations working in the HIV/AIDS, health and development fields.
Author : Andrew Turton
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Asia, Southeastern
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Author : Watson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520040311
Author : P. A. Stott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2005-12
Category : History
ISBN : 113575280X
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Prakai Nontawasee
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Burma
ISBN :