Merit and Power in Thai Social Order | 1962 – Hanks demonstrates how people move within fixed settings in the social hierarchy. According to Buddhist belief, the position of every living being in the hierarchy is dependent on their relative amounts of “merit” (bun) and “sin” (baap). Power may arise from experience or special knowledge, or alternatively may derive from amulets, and may belong to anyone, while effectiveness, by contrast, derives only from merit. | Typescript
Yuan or Northern Thai | 1983 – The Yuan or Northern Thai regard themselves as Thai, but Thai with a difference that distinguishes them from the people of other parts of Thailand and from the Shan, Lue and Laotians. | Typescript
Gazetteer for 1962, ’69, ’74 – Ethnic Settlements, Chiengrai Province | Information on three maps of ethnic settlements in Chiang Rai Province north of the Mae Kok river, dated 1964, 1969 and 1974. | Book
Physically Handicapped in Certain Non-Occidental Societies | 1948 – Protection of the physically handicapped and social participation for them is increased in societies where: 1) the level of productivity is higher in proportion to the population and its distribution more nearly equal, 2) competitive factors in individual or group achievement are minimized, 3) the criteria of achievement are less formally absolute as in hierarchical social structures and more weighted with concern for individual capacity, as in democratic social structures. | Typescript
Travelers among people : in memoriam Phya Anuman Rajadhon | 1970 – An article by Lucien Hanks reprinted from “In Memoriam Phya Anuman Rajadhon”, published by the Siam Society, Bangkok, looking at the life of Phya Anuman Rajadhon when he lived in the United States, where he was forced to confront not only different peoples and cultures, but also his own loneliness. | Typescript
Reviews : C. Archaimbault : La course de Pirogues au Loas | 1973 - “La Course de Pirogues au Laos: un Complexe Cultural” by Charles Archaimbault, reprinted from the Journal of the Siam Society, July 1973, vol. 61. Archaimbault looks at boat races along the Mekong River in Laos. | Typescript
Symposium : Societal organization in SEAsia Prior to 18 th century : foreword | 1984 – The foreword to the Symposium on Societal Organization in Mainland Southeast Asia Prior to the Eighteenth Century by Lucien Hanks, published in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol.15 no.2, September 1984. | Typescript
Diphtheria immunization in a Thai community | 1955 – The studying of a threatened epidemic fails to alarm parents in Bang Chan; community response to a call for immunization; Bang Chan fights the threat of contagious disease; the community of Bang Chan and its attitudes; factors influencing the effectiveness of communication. | Typescript
Female and fertility | The Thai people believe that there are goddesses protecting the earth, rivers and paddy fields. Human women, moreover, are perceived as important nurturers, and because their fruitful role is often enlarged to other arenas, their fertility brings in power. Where husbands and sons work for wages, they turn their money intact over to women as the head of the household. From Neolithic times, Thailand has shared the matrilineal tendencies present in other Southeast Asian nations. However, migration and influences with patrilineal foci – whether Buddhism, Brahmanism or Judeo-Christian traditions - have flowed in from India and China. | Typescript
