Author: Steven Isaac PikerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
An Examination of Character and Socialization in Thai Peasant Community
Author: Steven Isaac PikerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
An Examination of Character and Socialization in Thai Peasant Community
Author: Steven Isaac PikerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
An Examination of Character and Socialization in a Thai Peasant Community
Author: Steven Isaac PikerThe Psychological Study of Theravada Societies
Author: Steven PikerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900465836X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Of Beggars and Buddhas
Author: Katherine A. BowiePublisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299309509
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
An exploration of subversive, ribald variations of the most important story in Theravada Buddhism.
The Family in Asia
Author: Man Singh DasPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000920593
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The institution of the family is by far the most important of all the societal networks in which the lives of men, women and children are involved. Nowhere is this more true than in the less developed countries of Asia. Originally published in 1979, The Family in Asia aimed to provide a series of comprehensive survey chapters which described traditional family patterns in a selection of Asian countries at different stages of economic development. These range from a rapidly expanding and highly developed industrial nation, Japan, through modernising and developing countries, India, Pakistan, Iran, China, South Korea and the Philippines, to more underdeveloped countries, such as Thailand and Afghanistan. Each chapter is written by a senior country specialist and covers an integrated series of topics within a uniform framework in order to facilitate inter-country comparisons. Valuable description and statistical material is provided on the literature and on the effects of industrialisation, urbanisation and modernisation, but perhaps more important is a theoretical framework and the editors’ review of some basic characteristics of social modernisation. These include the degree of equalitarian family relations and sexual divisions in society; emphasis on individualism and independence; the differentiation and specialised functioning of social institutions; urban life; birth control and family planning; social mobility; marital disruption and divorce; neglect and care of the elderly; formal education for children; and government intervention and influence on family activities. Read in its historical context, this title will interest specialists in development and Asian studies, in demography, sociology and in anthropology. Students in particular, will value the tight analytical framework in which the book has been written.
Maoist Insurgency Since Vietnam
Author: Thomas A. MarksPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136302271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This is an analysis of revolutions based on the Maoist Mode. These insurgencies failed, having been successfully contained by their governments. How did the world's strongest power - America - fail where Third World governments have succeeded?
Gangsters, Democracy, and the State in Southeast Asia
Author: Carl A. TrockiPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501719424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
An essay collection that studies workaday, regional politics in Southeast Asia and its implications for evolving democracies. The contributors examine the electoral process, conflicts between central and local governments, conflicts between individual freedoms and state power, and the roles charismatic, opportunistic strongmen have played in Southeast Asian politics, most notably in Thailand, Burma, and the Philippines.
Sociology and Social Anthropology in Asia and the Pacific
Author: UnescoPublisher: New Delhi : Wiley Eastern ; Paris : Unesco
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Village in Perspective
Author: Philip HirschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Selected essays on Thai villages presented at the workshop "The Village Revisited: Community and Locality in Southeast Asia".