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Subject Siam - Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand (Hardcover)
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Subject Siam - Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand (Hardcover)
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Unlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized
by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until
1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and
imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by imperial nations
while domestically its leaders pursued European colonial strategies
of juridical control in the Muslim south. The creation of family
law and courts in that region and in Siam proper most clearly
manifests Siam's dualistic position. Demonstrating the centrality
of gender relations, law, and Siam's Malay Muslims to the history
of modern Thailand, Subject Siam examines the structures and social
history of jurisprudence to gain insight into Siam's unique
position within Southeast Asian history. Tamara Loos elaborates on
the processes of modernity through an in-depth study of hundreds of
court cases involving polygyny, marriage, divorce, rape, and
inheritance adjudicated between the 1850s and 1930s. Most
important, this study of Siam offers a novel approach to the
question of modernity precisely because Siam was not colonized yet
was subject to transnational discourses and symbols of modernity.
In Siam, Loos finds, the language of modernity was not associated
with a foreign, colonial overlord, so it could be deployed both by
elites who favored continuation of existing domestic hierarchies
and by those advocating political and social change.
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