Social change, cultural logic, and the transformation of domestic relations in rural Northern Thailand
1995
Fordham, Graham (Griffith Univ. (Australia))
This research was to investigate how Thailand's rapid economic growth during the 1980's has affected some of the factors which contribute to the functioning of households in rural Northern Thai villages. In particular, through a focus on household ritual and investigation of perceptions of health and relative risk, it aimed to examine the changes in the way in which villagers perceive their relations to the outside world, and how their perceptions of that world are changing. The author also found out how factors such as drought, AIDS, traffic accidents and the like, the control of which are substantially beyond any on one individual, impact on peasant perceptions of the modern world and on perceptions of their location in that world. Similarly, he also examines the contemporary meanings of alcohol and patterns of alcohol consumption, which are not just a reflection of indigenous cultural patterns, but are the result of the impact of transnational influences on local level Northern Thai village culture.
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