Cultural Crisis and Social Memory - Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos (Paperback)

This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos. It explicates the ways in which social memory constructed by the people enters modernity, and how this in turn causes fundamental ruptures with their past, as well as the various ways cultural crises are experienced in their lives. The essays in this book consider how in these crises the people constitute their cultural, social, or individual identities, particularly focusing on the theoretical issues of identifications and their relevance to distinct historical processes in Thailand and Laos. Both countries, particularly in the two decades since the 1970s, have been undergoing radical social and economic changes. Whilst Thailand has travelled down the road to industrialization, neighbouring Laos experienced a communist revolution in 1975 and only since the late 1980s has attempted to follow a reformist path to development. Increasingly influenced by globalised economic and social institutions, both countries have come to face crises that have made people insecure in the present and anxious about the future.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Anthropology of Asia
Release date:	May 2016
First published:	2002
Authors:	Charles F. Keyes • Shigeharu Tanabe
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	324
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-99053-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	1-138-99053-1
Barcode:	9781138990531

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