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Cultural Crisis and Social Memory
Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos
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Cultural Crisis and Social Memory
Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos
About this book
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 constitute their cultural, social, or individual identities, particularly focusing on the theoretical issues of identifications and their relevance to distinct historical processes in Thailand and Laos.
Both countries, particularly in the two decades since the 1970s, have been undergoing radical social and economic changes. Whilst Thailand has travelled down the road to industrialization, neighbouring Laos experienced a communist revolution in 1975 and only since the late 1980s has attempted to follow a reformist path to development. Increasingly influenced by globalised economic and social institutions, both countries have come to face crises that have made people insecure in the present and anxious about the future.
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Index
abolition of slavery 155
action theory 22
Agulhon, Maurice 154, 176–177
AIDS 19. See also HIV/AIDS
Ajarn Man 53
Akas Chompuchak, Police Captain 249
alienation 26
amnesty 254
amulets 52, 172
Amway 88
Anake Nawigamune 81
Anan Ganjanapan 57, 68, 90
Anand Punyarachun 266
ancestor spirits (phi pu ña) 61; cults 58; worship 52
Anderson, Benedict 7, 21, 24, 31, 69, 85, 91, 155, 174–175
Angkor Thorn 180
Angkorean 125
animism 79
Anu, Cao. See Anuwong
Anuman Rajadhon, Phya 44, 89
Anuwong, Cao 114, 117–118, 120–123, 132; narratives of 123
anxiety 23, 26, 51, 63
Appadurai, Arjun 50
appropriation 23, 32, 55–56, 62–64
ascetic movements 86
asceticism 87; extreme 26
Askew, Marc 175
Assembly of the Poor (Samatcha khon con) 18
astrologer 85
asylum 30
Atsiri Thammachot 279
Austin, John A. 90
authenticity 78
autonomy 198–199
autopoiesis 295, 297
Baker, Chris 17, 31
bap (sins) 236, 239. See also bun
Barmé, Scot 84
Barthes, Roland 178
Bartlett, Frederick C. 3, 30
Bateson, Gregory 30
Bauman, Zygmunt 50
beauty contest 15
Bellah, Robert N. 21
Bencha Yoddumnern-Attig 19
Benjamin, Walter 58, 65
Berlin, Isaiah 108
Bhabha, Homi 86
Bhumipol Adulyadej, King (Rama IX) 16, 18, 124. See also monarchy
Bloch, Maurice 6, 20, 102
bloodshed in Indonesia, 1...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Embodied Memories in Cultural Crisis Spirit Possession and Ritual
- Part II Nationalist Monuments Competing Social Memories
- Part III Commoditisation and Consumer Identities
- Part IV Remembering, Social Memory, and History
- Part V Reflections
- Index