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Bang Chan : : Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand / / Lucien M. Hanks, Lauriston Sharp.

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Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into the urban spread of the Thai capital. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book sums up the major finding...

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VerfasserIn:
Sharp, Lauriston,
Hanks, Lucien M.,
TeilnehmendeR:
Hanks, Lucien M.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press,, [2018]
©1978
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Anthropology
Physical Description:1 online resource (316 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER 1. Departure
  • CHAPTER 2. The Dispensable Ones
  • CHAPTER 3. Newcomers
  • CHAPTER 4. Migration
  • CHAPTER 5. The New Life
  • CHAPTER 6. Patrons and Their Work
  • CHAPTER 7. Years of Austerity
  • CHAPTER 8. Transformation Scene
  • CHAPTER 9. Five Perspectives
  • Appendix A. Schooling of Bang Chan population by age and sex, 1953
  • APPENDIX B. Bang Chan school enrollment, fourth-grade enrollment, number graduating from fourth grade , and number entering middle school, 1937-1 960
  • APPENDIX C. Responses of 363 fourth-grade rural and urban schoolchildren aged 11-14 in 1954 to question: "When you are 25 years old, what kind of work would you like to be doing?"
  • APPENDIX D. Religious affiliation and experience of Bang Chan males, by age group, 1949
  • APPENDIX E. Price range of padi, land. and land rent in Bang Chan , 1880-1953 (in baht)
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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