Research Catalog

Title

Heritage and identity in contemporary Thailand : memory, place and power / Ross King.

Author

King, Ross

Publication

• Singapore : NUS Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

NUS Press publisher.

Description

xiii, 319 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand explores the intersections of memory, place, power and tourism in the production of Thai heritage and identity. The author shows that underlying officially promulgated ideas is a much deeper, richer and sometimes darker substratum of memories and practices that both undermine and enrich conventional ideas of Thailand as a Kingdom, a nation and a culture. The book views Thai culture and its heritage from a variety of perspectives that are derived from the work of Thai scholars but refracted through a more Western epistemology and its attendant critical theory. Through a juxtaposition of Thai and Western critical scholarship, it highlights key elements of Thai identity or, more accurately, the diversity of Thai identities. In the process, the book raises questions about both Thai and Western thinking about knowledge and its production. Book jacket.

Subject

• Kollektives Gedächtnis
• Kulturerbe
• Identität
• Nationalbewusstsein
• Social conditions
• Conduct of life
• Social values
• Thailand
• Thailand > Politics and government
• Thailand > Religious life and customs
• Thailand > Conduct of life
• Thailand > Social values
• Thailand > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index.

Language (note)

• In English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The social construction of heritage -- Lieux de mémoire : heritage and memory -- Heritage and imagination : chiang saen / Ross King, Weeraphan Shinawatra -- Heritage and interpretation : a tale of three palaces / Ross King Sompong Amnuay-ngerntra -- Heritage and dialectics : the ambiguities of love in Thai heritage / Ross King, Supatra Boonpanyarote -- Heritage and gender in Thai (Lanna) history and memory / Ross King, Ratchaneekorn Sae-Wang -- Whose heritage? : the Japanese olonisation of Thailand / Ross King, Sakesit Paksee -- Hidden heritage (1) : Photharam and the problem of local heritage / Ross King, Rathirat Khewmesuin -- Milieux de mémoire : heritage, memory and inequality -- The Khlong / Ross King, Cuttaleeya Jiraprasertkun -- Hidden heritage (2 ): Sukhumvit 71 / Ross King, Pumin Varavan -- informality as heritage / Ross King, Boonanan Natakun -- Craft as heritage : the dilemma of the craft communities of Bangkok / Ross King, Pensiri Chartniyom -- Heritage and the dispersal of culture : the Phutai / Ross King, Jinnapas Pathumporn -- Ban Pa-Ao, Pro-poor tourism and the question of values / Ross King, Sairoong Dinkoksung -- Conclusion -- Consuming heritage, and the tourist gaze.

ISBN

• 9789814722278
• 9814722278

LCCN

^^2017344061

OCLC

• 958436757
• SCSB-12427641

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library