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Merit and power in the Thai social order
American anthropologist • 64 • Published In 1962 • Pages: 1247-1261
By: Hanks, Lucien M. (Lucien Mason).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article provides a general discussion of Thai conceptions of “merit” and “power”, considered in relation to the more general scheme which is informed by what Hanks refers to as a “magico-animist” cosmology. Some insight is given into the nature of Thai interpersonal relations, notions of social structure and social coherence, and the Thai concept of person.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Social personality
- Status, role, and prestige
- Social relationships and groups
- Prayers and sacrifices
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Central Thai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Psychologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M.A. Marcus ; 1984
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1948-1957
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1948-1957
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bang Chan and Thailand in general
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Lucien M. Hanks, Jr.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 1259)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Thais