Bang Chan: Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand

Lauriston Sharp; Lucien M. Hanks

Published by Cornell University Press 1978

Bang Chan

Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand

Lauriston Sharp and Lucien M. Hanks
Funded by: National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program

In the series Cornell Studies in Anthropology

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501721397

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About this book

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 findings of a pioneering interdisciplinary research project that began in 1948. Changes in Bang Chan's social organization, technology, economy, governance, education, and religion are portrayed in the context of local and national developments.

Author / Editor information

The late Lauriston Sharp (1907–1993) was Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University. He was the author of Steel Axes for Stone-Age Australians, People Without Politics, and Cultural Continuities and Discontinuities in Southeast Asia and coauthor of Siamese Rice Village. The late Lucien M. Hanks (1910–1988) was Professor of Psychology and Anthropology at Bennington College. He was coauthor of Rice and Man: Agricultural Ecology in Southeast Asia and Tribes of the North Thailand Frontier.

Reviews

John A. Larkin:

Bang Chan is a delight to read. The authors have a good narrative style and an eye for detail—not just detail to exemplify but detail to humanize their characters, to relate Bang Chan to the wider world. What a pleasure it is to follow these two guides along the route from Bangkok to Bang Chan, along that rural community’s busy canals, and back again to the big city. Our authors know how to make the trip an absorbing, entertaining, and easy one, no small feat when the journey is scholarly as well.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	9
Illustrations Open Access Download PDF	11
Preface Open Access Download PDF	13
CHAPTER 1. Departure Open Access Download PDF	19
CHAPTER 2. The Dispensable Ones Open Access Download PDF	35
CHAPTER 3. Newcomers Open Access Download PDF	60
CHAPTER 4. Migration Open Access Download PDF	74
CHAPTER 5. The New Life Open Access Download PDF	92
CHAPTER 6. Patrons and Their Work Open Access Download PDF	121
CHAPTER 7. Years of Austerity Open Access Download PDF	143
CHAPTER 8. Transformation Scene Open Access Download PDF	164
CHAPTER 9. Five Perspectives Open Access Download PDF	208
Appendix A. Schooling of Bang Chan population by age and sex, 1953 Open Access Download PDF	239
APPENDIX B. Bang Chan school enrollment, fourth-grade enrollment, number graduating from fourth grade , and number entering middle school, 1937-1 960 Open Access Download PDF	240
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?” Open Access Download PDF	241
APPENDIX D. Religious affiliation and experience of Bang Chan males, by age group, 1949 Open Access Download PDF	242
APPENDIX E. Price range of padi, land. and land rent in Bang Chan , 1880-1953 (in baht) Open Access Download PDF	243
Glossary Open Access Download PDF	245
Notes Open Access Download PDF	253
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	297
Index Open Access Download PDF	307

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Copyright year: 1978
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 316
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Images: 15
- Other: 15 b&w halftones, 5 maps
Keywords: Sociology & Social Science; Asian Studies; Anthropology

eBook

Published: February 15, 2018
ISBN: 9781501721397