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Siamese Melting Pot
Author | : Edward Van Roy |
Publsiher | : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2018-02-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789814762854 |
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Ethnic minorities historically comprised a solid majority of Bangkok's population. They played a dominant role in the city's exuberant economic and social development. In the shadow of Siam's prideful, flamboyant Thai ruling class, the city's diverse minorities flourished quietly. The Thai-Portuguese; the Mon; the Lao; the Cham, Persian, Indian, Malay, and Indonesian Muslims; and the Taechiu, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainanese, and Cantonese Chinese speech groups were particularly important. Others, such as the Khmer, Vietnamese, Thai Yuan, Sikhs, and Westerners, were smaller in numbers but no less significant in their influence on the city's growth and prosperity. In tracing the social, political, and spatial dynamics of Bangkok's ethnic pluralism through the two-and-a-half centuries of the city's history, this book calls attention to a long-neglected mainspring of Thai urban development. While the book's primary focus is on the first five reigns of the Chakri dynasty (1782-1910), the account extends backward and forward to reveal the continuing impact of Bangkok's ethnic minorities on Thai culture change, within the broader context of Thai development studies. It provides an exciting perspective and unique resource for anyone interested in exploring Bangkok's evolving cultural milieu or Thailand's modern history.
Siamese Melting Pot
Author | : Edward Van Roy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Bangkok (Thailand) |
ISBN | : 6162151395 |
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Contentious Belonging
Author | : Greg Fealy,Ronit Ricci |
Publsiher | : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-05-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789814843492 |
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Contention has surrounded the status of minorities throughout Indonesian history. Two broad polarities are evident: one inclusive of minorities, regarding them as part of the nation’s rich complexity and a manifestation of its “Unity in Diversity” motto; the other exclusive, viewing with suspicion or disdain those communities or groups that differ from the perceived majority. State and community attitudes towards minorities have fluctuated over time. Some periods have been notable for the acceptance of minorities and protection of their rights, while others have been marked by anti-minority discrimination, marginalisation and sometimes violence. This book explores the complex historical and contemporary dimensions of Indonesia’s religious, ethnic, LGBT and disability minorities from a range of perspectives, including historical, legal, political, cultural, discursive and social. It addresses fundamental questions about Indonesia’s tolerance and acceptance of difference, and examines the extent to which diversity is embraced or suppressed.
Very Thai
Author | : Philip Cornwel-Smith |
Publsiher | : River Books Press Dist A C |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : CUB:U183048187537 |
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This pioneering insight into contemporary Thai folk culture delves beyond the traditional Thai icons to reveal the casual, everyday expressions of Thainess that so delight and puzzle. From floral truck bolts and taxi altars to buffalo cart furniture and
A History of Ayutthaya
Author | : Chris Baker,Pasuk Phongpaichit |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2017-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107190764 |
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The first full history of a great commercial and political center that rose in Asia over almost five centuries.
Lords of Things
Author | : Maurizio Peleggi |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2002-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824825586 |
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Lords of Things offers a fascinating interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion its self and public image in the early stages of globalization. It examines the westernized modes of consumption and self-presentation, the residential and representational architecture, and the public spectacles appropriated by the Bangkok court not as byproducts of institutional reformation initiated by modernizing sovereigns, but as practices and objects constitutive of the very identity of the royalty as a civilized and civilizing class. Bringing a wealth of new source material into a theoretically informed discussion, Lords of Things will be required reading for historians of Thailand and Southeast Asia scholars generally. It represents a welcome change from previous studies of Siamese modernization that are almost exclusively concerned with the institutional and economic dimensions of the process or with foreign relations, and will appeal greatly to those interested in transnational cultural flows, the culture of colonialism, the invention of tradition, and the relationship between consumption and identity formation in the modern era.
Magical Urbanism
Author | : Mike Davis |
Publsiher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1859847714 |
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Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award. This paperback edition of Mike Davis's investigation into the Latinization of America incorporates the extraordinary findings of the 2000 Census as well as new chapters on the militarization of the Border and violence against immigrants.