THAI BOOKS
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Title: Professional Stranger : Doing Thailand During its Most Violent Decade: A Field Diary
Author: Niels Mulder
Publisher: White Lotus
Isbn: 987-974-480-140-1
Year: 2009
Language: English
Rate: 6/7
Type: Culture
Summary: This book relates the adventure of doing anthropology in an unruly period (1975-1978), when events sometimes affected the resarch. The story is basically concerned with the process of coming to grips with the logic of Thai life, such as formally recorded in Everyday Life in Thailand: an Interpretation and Inside Thai society. The present narrative, however, links the insights gained directly to raw data and experiences, and so provides light-hearted and serious reading at the same time. Some interesting insights on village scouts, western culture influence on Thai culture, on spirits corruption and rituals, on 1970s social movies and so on...
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