Cultural Crisis and Social Memory : Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos

by Tanabe, Shigeharu; Keyes, Charles F.

• ISBN13: 9780824826031
• ISBN10: 0824826035
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

Explores social memory in the milieu of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
List of Illustrations	ix
List of Contributors	x
Introduction	1	(42)
Shigeharu Tanabe
Charles F. Keyes
I Embodied Memories in Cultural Crisis: Spirit Possession and Ritual
The Person in Transformation: Body, Mind and Cultural Appropriation	43	(25)
Shigeharu Tanabe
Crises of the Modern in Northern Thailand: Ritual, Tradition, and the New Value of Pastness	68	(27)
Rosalind C. Morris
Hmong Confucian Ethics and Constructions of the Past	95	(18)
Nicholas Tapp
II Nationalist Monuments: Competing Social Memories
National Heroine or Local Spirit? The Struggle over Memory in the Case of Thao Suranari of Nakhon Ratchasima	113	(24)
Charles F. Keyes
Monuments and Memory: Phaya Sihanatraja and the Founding of Maehongson	137	(17)
Nicola Tannenbaum
Immobile Memories: Statues in Thailand and Laos	154	(31)
Grant Evans
III Commoditisation and Consumer Identities
Exhibition of Power: Factory Women's Use of the Housewarming Ceremony in a Northern Thai Village	185	(17)
Kyonosuke Hirai
The Postmodernisation of Thainess	202	(29)
Kasian Tejapira
IV Remembering, Social Memory, and History
Social Memory as it Emerges: A Consideration of the Death of a Young Convert on the West Coast in Southern Thailand	231	(12)
Ryoko Nishii
Remembering/Silencing the Traumatic Past: The Ambivalent Memories of the October 1976 Massacre in Bangkok	243	(44)
Thongchai Winichakul
V Reflections
Social Memory Reconsidered	287	(13)
Masato Fukushima
Index	300