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Family Life in a Northern Thai Village
A Study in the Structural Significance of Women
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Sulamith Heins Potter
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
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"Potter's 'humanistic narrative' probes family social structure and social organization in Chiangmai, a Northern Thai village .... a solid, informative, and very interesting and alive picture." --Library Journal "Gives us a rare inside view of daily life in a northern Thai village . . . The reader gets a feeling of life, pleasure,jealously,anger, pain, and death that is seldom discussed in the anthropological literature." --Asia "Rejecting the traditional 'loosely structured' theory of the Thai family, Potter suggests a system that is female--centered with structurally significant consanguineal ties between women rather than men. This alternative not only explains the data presented but offers a new way of looking at comparative kinship." --Intercom "The dynamic interplay between the structural dominance of women and the ideological dominance of men is vividly brought out, challenging earlier, and possibly male-biased, perspectives on Northern Thai family structure." --Population and Development Review "Potter succeeds in presenting ethnographic material in a lively, humanistically oriented manner. By the time we have encountered three generations of Plenitudes at home in their courtyard . . . we know them as individuals as we as representatives of an exotic culture. . . . Potter presents individual portraits alongside this vivid picture of family and social structure, communal and individual economic activity, political factionalism, and religious observance . . . this book stands as a challenge to cross-cultural psychology." --Contemporary Psychology "Dr. Potter's study is highly readable and will be of interest to the general public as well as to scholars." --Asian Student
"Potter's 'humanistic narrative' probes family social structure and social organization in Chiangmai, a Northern Thai village .... a solid, informative, and very interesting and alive picture." --Library Journal "Gives us a rare inside view of daily lif
"Potter's 'humanistic narrative' probes family social structure and social organization in Chiangmai, a Northern Thai village .... a solid, informative, and very interesting and alive picture." --Library Journal "Gives us a rare inside view of daily lif
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Potter Sulamith Heins :
Sulamith Heins Potter is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
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eBook published on:
November 15, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9780520341845
Edition:
2nd printing, Reprint 2020
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156
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Keywords for this book
thailand; village life; family relationships; cultural anthropology; anthropologists; ethnographers; northern thailand; chiangmai; thai culture; nonfiction account; asian studies; family dynamics; asian culture; daily life; anthropological; thai family; female centered; matriarchal; comparative history; asian scholars; kinship; ethnographic study; humanistic; family culture; cultural psychology; religious observance; social structure; economic activity; social organization