Year 1958-1961

Scope and content :

1958-1961. The first field work trip of Moerman in Thailand. He spent almost 3 years to collected field data about the Lue society, tradition, culture, and daily life of Tai Lue community at Ban Phaed, Payao province. 3295 records of slide, photograph, punch card, letter, notebook, typescript, and map.

Repository : SAC

Extent and medium : 3295 records of slide, photograph, punch card, letter, notebook, typescript, and map.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer : Donated by Michael Moerman, 2005.

System of arrangemant : The series is divided base on the periods of field work in Thailand.

Condition governing accessible and reproduce : Some restriction on access. To respect in intellectual property right, the original material (hard copy) may not allowed to access. Please contact staff if you need more information.

Creative Commons License : Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

Traditional Knowledge License : Traditional Knowledge Attribution Non-Commercial (TK A-NC)

Language : English/Thai

Script : English/Thai

Rule or convention : Collection, series and file level description based on ISAD(G)

2121. Reference : MM-1-21-435

Lawyers talk about court.

| Late November. Somporn explained why the hearing process for the Thai courts was delayed. There were two reasons: one because of less learned witnesses, and another due to the unreliable functioning of the police. | Punch card

Lawyers talk about court.

2122. Reference : MM-1-21-436

Lawyers, Bodin interviews Chajchan Phothirangsijakon in Phrae.

| March 13, 1969. Chajchan graduated from Thammasat University and had worked as a lawyer. Moerman interviewed him regarding his personal history, his work as a lawyer, and his attitude towards the justice system, etc. | Punch card

Lawyers, Bodin interviews Chajchan Phothirangsijakon in Phrae.

2123. Reference : MM-1-21-437

Lawyers - Khun Phong.

| Jun 4, 1969. Moerman collected biographies of Pong from his companies. Pong wae a well-known lawyer in Chiang Mai. Lawyers and officials (Assistant District Offices and Sheriffs) were his followers. He had experience in criminal cases and expertise in the language contained in early law. | Punch card

Lawyers - Khun Phong.

2124. Reference : MM-1-21-438

Lawyers : Thawi.

| December 7, 8, 11, 1968; January 30, March 18, June 4, 1969. Thawee was a former member of the police with a rank of Lieutenant. Currently his career was as a lawyer. Moerman interviewed him to regarding his work when he was policeman, his income and other professionals, in addition to as a lawyer. Thawee had substancial experience in criminal cases because of his previous work as a policeman. Thus he understood the the process of police work. | Punch card

Lawyers : Thawi.

2125. Reference : MM-1-21-439

Prawin's practice.

| May 29, 1969. Moerman interviewed Prawin about various cases. For example, he was hired by an American insurance company (American International Underwriter Insurance Co.) as a consultant in a case of a man who fired a gun at his hand in the hopes of making an insurance claim. There was also a case of claiming the rights to occupy land, which took seven years, and a case of opium smuggling in which he could help the accused be freed from the allegations. | Punch card

Prawin's practice.

2126. Reference : MM-1-21-440

Lawyers : Prawin.

| January 27, 1969. Prawin traveled to Bangkok to file a lawsuit in the case of procurement fraud associated with telegraph poles. On 30 January 1969 Prawin was the only attorney in Chiang Mai who worked the as same as the lawyers working in Bangkok. He preferred to hire young lawyers with no experience to work for him. On December 4, 1969 Dr. Pentip said that there were not many lawyers in Chiang Mai. Because of this, a lawyer conducted many cases and so that he was often seen at the court. It was quite opposite of lawyers in Bangkok who were paid more, and were seen less often at the court. | Punch card

Lawyers : Prawin.

2127. Reference : MM-1-21-441

Lawyers.

| February 22, 1969. Moerman interviewed Bodin to summarize his life history, beginning before his career as a lawyer. Bodin had a career as a teacher. Then he talked about the brokerage business for sub-district chiefs, village headmen and those who had been drifting in the courts. These groups would take clients to meet with attorneys and then charge for commission from the clients or lawyers. | Punch card

Lawyers.

2128. Reference : MM-1-21-442

Lawyers Bodin interviews Sutham.

| March 12. Sutham possessed a law firm in Phrae province. The major reason he chose a career as lawyer was because there were no locals working as a lawyer in Phrae. As a local, such lawyers could understood the issues and the languages. Moerover, he thought that process of investigation and arrest of the accused should be split in order to prevent the police from graft. | Punch card

Lawyers Bodin interviews Sutham.

2129. Reference : MM-1-21-443

Lawyers Sunan Jingsang at Phrae.

| March 13, 1969. Moerman interviewed Sunan, summarizing his life history and work. He did not have much work experience, which was the reason Uthum might supervise and assist in writing lawsuits. Personally, he thought that the process of investigation should be separate from the work of the police, and there should be another organization which took care of the investigation. Both sides could then monitor each other. | Punch card

Lawyers Sunan Jingsang at Phrae.

2130. Reference : MM-1-21-444

Lawyers. M.R.W. Carernsuk.

| February 21, 1969. Badin interviewed with M.R.W. Charernsuk about his life history and his work, such as a fortune-teller defrauded, or the case of a car crash. There were three kinds of clients: 1) Those who were brokers and filed a case for him (for instance sub-district chiefs, village headmen), he had to pay a commission to these people of about 30% of the case fee; 2) Those who came to meet him on their own, most of these people came to him by word of mouth; 3) Those who happened to meet him at the court. Otherwise, employees at the court also served as brokers such as the first group. Personally, he was of the opinion that the process of investigation should be excluded from the process of arrest, because officials who arrested the accused could also construct false evidence in order to be consistent with the allegations. | Punch card

Lawyers. M.R.W. Carernsuk.