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Map of Chiang Mai
 A Companion to Bangkok's Best Known Map Chiang Mai's most unique guide to shopping, dining and sightseeing including lots of local secrets!! Detailed maps of: The Night Bazaar Worowat Market Old Town Area Out of Town Trips |
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The Home of an Eastern Clan by Leslie Milne
A Study of the Palaungs of the Shan States The Home of an Eastern Clan is a detailed study on all aspects of life and culture of the Palaungs of the Shan States. This study, which was researched in the 1910's and published in 1924, deals for most part with the Katur tribe of the Palaungs. They live in or near Namhsan, the capital of Tawngpeng, which was nominally a Shan State but which was governed by a Palaung chief then, and inhabited almost entirely by Palaungs. The Palaungs are a mon-Khmer speaking group (as are the Lamet of Laos). Since her first encounters with the Palaungs in 1906 the author learned the language of the main dialect spoken in Namhsan. This scarce book is still one of the main studies on the subject and covers chapters on babies, young girls and boys, young men and maidens, marriage, the dwelling and home life, village life, medicine, customs on child birth and death, religion and cosmology, and some details on proverbs and folktales - indeed, most topics a female author would explore. |
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Khon Muang by Andrew Forbes and David Henley
From the "People and Cultures of Southeast Asia" Series Teak House has produced a series of extremely high quality books combining the large format and excellent photography associated with "coffee table books" with authoritative text from some of the best known experts in their fields. Ideal for both travelers and academic readers. The Khon Muang, or 'People of the Principalities', inhabit the hills and valleys of northern Thailand - formerly known as Lan Na, or the 'Kingdom of a Million Rice Fields'. In times past the people of the north spoke a different language to the central Thais. They dressed differently, women wore their hair long in contrast to the cropped fashion in Bangkok, and the men covered their bodies with intricate tattoos to ward off sickness and injury in times of war. The Golden Age of the Lan Na Kingdom was in the 13th-15th centuries, when Chiang Mai, the region's capital, treated on equal terms with Siam, Burma, Laos and even distant Sri Lanka. Then came Burmese conquest, Siamese invasion, and subsequent cultural domination by Bangkok. In recent years, however, amid signs of a general cultural rebirth, the Khon Muang have started to rediscover their past. |
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The Haw - Traders of the Golden Triangle by Andrew Forbes
From the "People and Cultures of Southeast Asia" Series Teak House has produced a series of extremely high quality books combining the large format and excellent photography associated with "coffee table books" with authoritative text from some of the best known experts in their fields. Ideal for both travelers and academic readers. The Golden Triangle region where Burma, Thailand, Laos and China meet has long been a lawless region, home to wandering tribes, drugs warlords, arms dealers, and plain old-fashioned bandits. Yet within this widely romanticised region one group, the Yunnanese Chinese or 'Haw', have established themselves as the cultural mediators and merchants par excellence, penetrating the area with their armed mule caravans. For centuries past, and down to the present day, the Haw have proven themselves the unrivalled masters of the Golden Triangle. |
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The Akha - Guardians of the Forest by Jim Goodman
From the "People and Cultures of Southeast Asia" Series Teak House has produced a series of extremely high quality books combining the large format and excellent photography associated with "coffee table books" with authoritative text from some of the best known experts in their fields. Ideal for both travelers and academic readers. With their unusual village boundary gates, annual Swing Festival and exotic costumes, the Akha are one of the most colourful mountain-dwelling peoples in Southeast Asia. Over the centuries they have developed a rich and complex culture that provides customs and behavioral rules for all of life's possible contingencies. Originating in China's Yunnan Province, the Akha spread into Vietnam, Laos, Burma and Thailand, and in recent generations have been subjected to the vicissitudes of war, revolution and modernization. In spite of such pressures they have managed to maintain the basic values and tenets of a thousand-year-old tradition. |
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Lanna Style by Ping Amranand and William Warren
Art and Design of Northern Thailand The country that we now refer to as Thailand only achieved its present form in the 19th. century. Before then for over 500 years there flourished the independent kingdom of Lanna, stretching north from Phitsanulok as far as Chiang Rai, as far east as present-day Laos and as far west as Burma. Over these centuries the kingdom developed a distinctive art, architecture, language and culture, many elements of which endure to this day. In this book, the beauty of Lanna's art, architecture and artifacts are captured in the photography of Ping Amranand, with an Informative text by William Warren. |
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A Motorcycle Guide to the Golden Triangle by David Unkovich
This useful pocket guide includes everything the motorcyclist needs to know to travel from Chiang Mai to the Golden Triangle and back. Some of northern Thailand's best motorcycling roads are found here, winding through forested, hilltribe country up near the crossroads of Burma, Laos and Thailand. Recommended routes, reliable accommodations, places of interested, and optional side trips and loops are all identified clearly, accompanied by practical tips and advice. The manual includes details of routes, including road surfaces and inclines, travel times, and required level of expertise. Stick maps accompany the text. A must for any trip to the Golden Triangle by motorcycle. |
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Ethnic Groups of Thailand by Joachim Schliesinger
Non-Thai-Speaking Peoples Ethnic Groups of Thailand describes 38 non-Tai peoples residing in Thailand - the well known mountain dwelling so-called hill tribes (Akha, Hmong, Htim, Khamu, Lahu, Lawa, Lisu, Mien, Pwo Karen, Sgaw Karen); lesser known northern peoples (Bisu, Blang, Haw, Kachin, Kayah, Kayaw, Kha Hor, Lamet, Mlabri, Mpi, Padong, Palaung, Pa-O, Parauk, Samtao) and norteastern and central lowlands (Bru, Cham, Chaobon, Chong, Gong, Kaleung, Kui, Mon, Seak, So, Thavung). Lastly, Semang and Sea Gypsies of southern Thailand and the Andaman Sea. These various ethnic groups are classified by their language family and a description given of each ones history, costume and crafts, houses and villages, agriculture and economy, society, ceremonies, myths and beliefs. All the groups are portrayed by 177 color illustrations taken by the author and an extensive bibliography for further reading. |
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Tai Groups of Thailand Volume 2 by Joachim Schliesinger
Vol. 2 - Profile of the Existing Groups Tai Groups of Thailand - Profile of the Existing Groups sketches each of the thirty Tai-speaking groups residing in Thailand: the Thai people of central Thailand, the numerous Lao Isan people of northeastern Thailand, the well-known Lao, Lue, Yuan and Tai Yai of northern Thailand; it also describes the lesser known and smaller groups (Kaleung, Khorat Tai, Lao Ga, Lao Krang, Lao Lom or Tai Dan, Lao Ngaew, Lao Song, Lao Ti, Lao Wieng, Phuan, Phu Tai, Seak, Southern Thai, Tai Bueng, Tai Dam, Tai Gapong, Tai Khoen, Tai Mao, Tai Wang, Tai Ya, Tai Yong, Tai Yor, Tak Bai Thai, Yoy) which are distributed throughout the length and breadth of Thailand. |
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Tai Groups of Thailand Volume 1 by Joachim Schliesinger
Vol. 1 - Introduction and Overview Tai Groups of Thailand - Introduction and Overview describes the early events of Southeast Asia and today's territory of Thailand before the coming of the Tai, presents the history after their arrival, informs about the hypothesis of the origin of the Tai race and shows the development of the ethnic Tai people in the context of the many distinct Tai groups and their kingdoms, states and principalities in Asia in general and in Thailand in particular. Linguistic development and classification of the Tai language, its branches and dialects, is explained as well as the description of the central Thai language. Finally, Tai agriculture and food, Tai handicrafts, Tai architecture and Tai religion are highlighted. Their way of living is clarified with 163 color illustrations and an extensive bibliography for further reading. |
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