7th International Conference on Thai Studies (http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/seamain/icts7/)
Thai Studies conference hosted by the University of Amsterdam and the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS, Leiden and Amsterdam) July 4-8, 1999. Links to proceedings and panels.
8th International Conference on Thai Studies (http://www.ru.ac.th/thaistudies8th/)
Conference held in Thailand at Nakhon Phanom on 9-12 January 2002, hosted by Ramkhamhaeng University. Links to program.
eHRAF. Collection of Ethnography. Culture: Central Thai (http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/e/ehraf/ehraf-idx?c=ehrafe&view=owc&owc=AO07)
The Central Thai speak the Central Thai (Tai-Shan) dialect of Tai, live in central and southern Thailand, and practice Theravada Buddhism. The Thai name for their country is "M'ang Thai" and their name for themselves is "Khon Thai." This file consists of 27 documents with a time range from roughly 1800-1993. Many of the studies focus on sociocultural change. Eight of these studies are centered on the village of Bang Chan but geographic and ethnographic surveys of other villages are included. Other topics include changing patterns of land ownership, the impact of economic development on rural-urban relations and politics, an account of a market area, studies of folk religion, monastic organization, the relationship between merit-making and identity formation, Thai cosmology, education and culture, and love magic.
Feminism in Thailand (http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/thai.html)
Brief bibliography and Internet sites on feminism in Thailand.
Karen Website (http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/misc/4226342)
Cultural exchange and communication center representing the Karens--a people indigenous to the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand and Burma numbering around 14 million. (The majority of the Karens live inside Burma.) Links to news, message boards, cultural information, and more.
U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2006: Thailand (http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78792.htm)
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress. The reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and workers rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |