Rian Thai – Volume 9/2016

 

 

1) Prevailing Constraints in the Search for Durable Solutions for Refugees in Displacement along the Thai-Myanmar Border / Aungkana Kmonpetch

 

2) Suankulard English School : A School for Future Bureaucrats and the Ruling Class, 1883-1897 / Arwut Teeraeak, Villa Vilaithong

 

3) Dana Dhamma Tradition of the Tai Diaspora in Thailand : The Selection of the Donated Scriptures and the Role of the Tradition / Chatuporn Petchaboon

 

4) Ethnographic Analogy and the Archaeological Record of Northern Thailand : Insights from Mlabri Hunter-Gatherers and Tham Lod Rockshelter Archaeofauna / Cyler Conrad

 

5) A Synthesis of the Major Concepts and Characteristics of Thai Buddhist Literature / Pisit Kobbun

 

6) New Year "Countdown" Chanting Ceremony in Contemporary Thai Society : An Analysis of an Invented Tradition / Prasert Runra

 

7) Nora Rong Khru Ritual: Roles of the Ritual in the Context of Ban Plairamai, a Siamese Village in Kedah, Malaysia / Preeyarat Chaowalitprapan

 

8) Examining the Continuity of Chinese Cultural Characteristics of the Thai-Chinese Community in Hat Yai Through the Chinese New Year Festival /Robert Cummings

 

9) Bunchu Phu Narak and Resistance to Modernity / Thanayod Lopattananont