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Reflections on Thai Culture by William J. Klausner
 Collected Writings of William J. Klausner The author, born in New York City in 1929, has spent more than half of his life in his second home, Thailand. He arrived in Thailand in 1955 and spent a year of intensive field work in a northeastern Thai village. He then served as an advisor to the Ministry of Interior assisting in the development of a national community development program. He has written extensively in the three major fields of his interest: law, culture and popular Buddhism. This book of collected articles is an eloquent summary of the author's efforts to achieve understanding and rapport and overcome conflict and tension resulting from the contact of different cultures. |
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Pleasing Siam by Joel J. Barlow
Details Helpful for Navigating Cultural Boundaries A concise guide to Thai culture for visitors to this country. It covers all the basics you need to know, from the geography, food, weather, festivals, religion, music, visas, to the history of the country. A good starting point for anyone of who has an interest in Thai culture. |
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Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse
True stories from Bangkok's Klong Toey Slum The Battle for Human Dignity in Bangkok's Bleakest Slums Foreword by Jerry Hopkins, author of No One Here Gets Out Alive A six-year-old horse walker… Glue-sniffling kids… Gambler moms pandering their daughters… Pedophile grandpa… Aids infected children… Sad, shocking stories but true. They happen every day in the heart of this City of Angels. Turn a blind eye on them, if you like. No one would blame you. Even authorities do the same. But if you wish to know what is happening right under your nose, here are first-hand accounts that "go beyond facts and figures to uncover the heart and soul of those living in the slum". If you look hard enough, there are happy moments too -- like the bonds of love and friendship that carry one through the hard times. |
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Lady of Isan by Michael Schemmann
The story of a mixed marriage from Northeast Thailand Watcharaporn is a nineteen year old rice farmer's daughter from Isan in search of a handsome foreigner with money and influence to help her through her life and her family out of poverty. Michael is a middle-age expatriate financial professional from Europe and North America beginning a teaching career at a university in Bangkok. The two meet in the night life scene in Pattaya. An eventful romance begins, sharing a sense of excitement and adventure that takes the reader through the beauty and brutality of a mixed marriage in Thailand ending in suspense. the revealing story is based on both, fact and fiction, and is a must for Thais and Expatriates contemplating, or finding themselves in, a cross-cultural relationship. |
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Endangered Relations by Chris Lyttleton
Endangered Relations: Negotiating Sex and Aids in Thailand by Chris Lyttleton Endangered Relations: Negotiating Sex and Aids in Thailand is about sexuality, disease and culture. It tells the story of HIV/AIDS in Thailand and the social and cultural forces shaping its impact. AIDS has become an increasingly prominent symbol of modernity in Thailand, yet ways of dealing with it draw on time-honoured understandings of fate and misfortune, disease and contagion, gender and pollution. Endangered Relations describes how over the past ten years public health manoeuvres to control the threat of HIV infection have meshed with local understandings of identity and sexuality. It is a study of the way in which Thai social relations, in particular Thai sexualities, shape the history of AIDS in Thailand and it offers a unique perspective on the complicated ways that sexuality and disease are negotiated in cultural, political and human terms. |
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Rare Breed - by Somkid Chaijitvanit and Chompoo Trakullertsathien
There are a great number of books about successful people particularly those in business circle. But accounts on people whose working hours are not measured by the ticks of the clock nor achievements by returns are scarce. These men and women devote themselves to the pursuance of knowledge and skills in areas that only raise eyebrows: mosquito larvae farming, aircraft cleaning, book repairing, furniture making... Unlike those highly-paid, well-recognized professionals, their names are unknown, their work go unnoticed. Nonetheless, their thoughts and experiences are uniquely interesting as they quietly contribute to the community in their own way. |
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Have Fun with Thai Proverbs by Dr. Duangtip Somnapan Surintatip
This splendid little book is a collection of 95 Thai proverbs with their English meanings. Each proverb is written in Thai, transliterated, translated, illustrated and then matched with its English equivalent. |
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Shadows of Life: Nang Talung by Sven Broman - Paperback
Thai Popular Shadow Theatre Nang Talung, the Thai popular shadow theatre, originated in the southern part of the country, where it is still a very popular form of entertainment. It appeared first in the 17th century and represents a new form of Thai shadow theatre different from Nang yai, the classical shadow theatre from central Thailand. This difference is found in shape, size and composition of the shadow figures, as well as in cast, manner of manipulation, performance, music and stage. 147 shadow figures from two Thai and two Swedish collections illustrate the different characters met with in a Nang talung performance. |
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Shadows of Life: Nang Talung by Sven Broman - Hardcover
Thai Popular Shadow Theatre Nang Talung, the Thai popular shadow theatre, originated in the southern part of the country, where it is still a very popular form of entertainment. It appeared first in the 17th century and represents a new form of Thai shadow theatre different from Nang yai, the classical shadow theatre from central Thailand. This difference is found in shape, size and composition of the shadow figures, as well as in cast, manner of manipulation, performance, music and stage. 147 shadow figures from two Thai and two Swedish collections illustrate the different characters met with in a Nang talung performance. |
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Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys editors Peter A. Jackson and Gerard Sullivan
Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand This book explores Thailand's diverse sexual population, from Kathoeys or Lady Boys (transsexual or transvestite males) and Tom Boys (masculine lesbians) to male sex workers who service male clients. The nine articles in the collection discuss sexual and gender diversity in a series of case studies of contemporary forms of male and female homosexuality and transgenderism in Thailand. By examining issues of sexual identity and behavior in Thai society, the selections reveal the social and emotional difficulties experienced by these individuals who live in a country often mistaken for a gay paradise. "Brings to life issues and problems of interpreting sexual and gender identities in contemporary Thailand ... Provides challenges to the applicability of models derived from Western gay, lesbian, and queer theories ... An important corrective to the many misapprehensions that have arisen, both within and outside Thailand, about non-normative sexual behaviors." Nerida M. Cook, Ph.D., Lecturer in Sociology, University of Tasmania, Australia. |
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