Chapter 8 Globalization and the Dynamics of Culture in Thailand

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. A Note on Names and Transliteration viii
5. Contributors ix
6. Chapter 1 Introduction: “Glocalizing” Southeast Asia 1
7. Part I Southeast Asia in Globalizing Perspectives
8. Chapter 2 Is Southeast Asia a Jigsaw Puzzle or a Collage? 21
9. Chapter 3 Cultural Knowledge, Nation-States, and the Limits of Globalization in Southeast Asia 42
10. Part II The Local, the National, and the Transnational in Southeast Asia
11. Chapter 4 How to Live a Local Life: Balinese Responses to National Integration in Contemporary Indonesia 65
12. Chapter 5 The Impact of Tourism in Three Tourist Villages in Bali 81
13. Chapter 6 Gamelan Degung: Traditional Music in Contemporary West Java 95
14. Chapter 7 Batik as a Commodity and a Cultural Object 111
15. Chapter 8 Globalization and the Dynamics of Culture in Thailand 126
16. Part III The Periphery of Nation States
17. Chapter 9 “Center” and “Periphery” in Oral Historiography in a Peripheral Area in Southeast Indonesia 145
18. Chapter 10 Transformation of Shamanic Rituals among the Sama of Tabawan Island, Sulu Archipelago, Southern Philippines 165
19. Chapter 11 Diaspora and Ethnic Awakening: The Formation of Cultural Consciousness among the Ayta of Mt. Pinatubo after the Eruption of 1991 179
20. Chapter 12 Cultural and Religious Identities in Okinawa Today: A Case Study of Seventh-Day Adventist Proselytization in a Northern Okinawan Village 202
21. Chapter 13 Ethnographies of the Vanishing? Global Images and Local Realities among the Aborigines of Taiwan, 1600–2000 226
22. Index 253