Personal Collection

Total : 34,872 item

231. Reference : H-1-4-18

Banditry in a SE Asian Setting

| 1975 | Typescript

232. Reference : H-1-4-19

Deposition to House of Representative Subcommittee: narcotics control

| 18 April 1975 – The Shan States of Burma are no longer under control of the government in Rangoon. These group deal in opium and arms in order to support themselves. A sizable transfer of US funds cannot occur without international repercussions. The proposed purchase will neither eradicate nor control Shan opium. | Typescript

233. Reference : H-1-4-20

Corruption and Commerce in Southeast Asia

| 1971 – Published in ‘Transaction: Social Science and Modern Society’. | Typescript

234. Reference : H-1-4-21

Corporation and the Entourage

| 1966 – A comparison of Thai and American social organization, modes of organization, entourages and their settings, and the entourage in an industrial setting. | Typescript

235. Reference : H-1-4-22

Thailand : Equality between the Sexes

| 1963 – Explanation of the family backgrounds of rural and city households, comparing their typical days, the similarities and differences between male and female roles, and gender role anxieties, both traditionally and in the modern order. | Typescript

236. Reference : H-1-4-23

Indifference to Modern Education in Thai community

| 1959 – Published in Human Organization, vol.17, no.2, this article looks at education in the Bang Chan community, educational traditions, educational sequences in Bang Chan, contemporary responses and educational policy, and the source of indifference | Typescript

237. Reference : H-1-4-24

American Aid is Damaging Thai Society

| 1968 – In the 1960s US troops were based in Thailand while fighting against guerrillas in North Vietnam. In return, the USA offered Thailand military and economic assistance, but this threatened the Thai social balance. | Typescript

238. Reference : H-1-4-26

Five Generalizations on the Structure of Foreign Contact

| An article by Lucien Hanks from the proceedings of the 1957 annual spring meeting of the American Ethnological Society. Looking at two periods in Thai history (the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries), Hanks makes five generalizations about the structure of foreign contact. Such contact was conducted on both a trade and a military basis, and the interaction between two societies was based on exchange. Whenever the purpose of exchange moves beyond that of institutional paraphernalia, new forms of contact will occur. | Typescript

239. Reference : H-1-4-30

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

240. Reference : H-1-4-31

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