A01=Charles F. Keyes
A01=Shigeharu Tanabe
Author_Charles F. Keyes
Author_Shigeharu Tanabe
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collective memory studies
cultural change in Thailand and Laos
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Factory Women
French Laos
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Inter-religious Marriages
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KASIAN TEJAPIRA
Kaysone Phomvihane
King Chulalongkorn
Lao Peoples Democratic Republic
Laos
Luang Prabang
Maehongson
Nakhon Ratchasima
Nakhon Sithammarat
National Library
Northern Thai
Northern Thailand
Phibun Songkhram
Photo Graph
postcolonial society analysis
ritual and modernisation
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social transformation
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Product details
- ISBN 9780700711758
- Weight: 960g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 May 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos. It explicates the ways in which social memory constructed by the people enters modernity, and how this in turn causes fundamental ruptures with their past, as well as the various ways cultural crises are experienced in their lives. The essays in this book consider how in these crises the people constitute their cultural, social, or individual identities, particularly focusing on the theoretical issues of identifications and their relevance to distinct historical processes in Thailand and Laos.
Both countries, particularly in the two decades since the 1970s, have been undergoing radical social and economic changes. Whilst Thailand has travelled down the road to industrialization, neighbouring Laos experienced a communist revolution in 1975 and only since the late 1980s has attempted to follow a reformist path to development. Increasingly influenced by globalised economic and social institutions, both countries have come to face crises that have made people insecure in the present and anxious about the future.
Charles F. Keyes, Shigeharu Tanabe
