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Fatalism in village Thailand
Anthropological quarterly • 39 (3) • Published In 1966 • Pages: 200-225
By: Ingersoll, Jasper Cooke.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article indicates the place of fatalism in the lives of Thai villagers. Ingersoll reviews native terms for fatalism, discusses beliefs about karma, describes forms of divination by which peasants try to learn of their fate, analyzes some beliefs and practices which are tied to responses to predictions of fate, and discusses what he calls 'differences in their ideal and real orientations toward fatalism'. He closes with a cultural ecological interpretation of Thai village fatalism.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Economic planning and development
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Life and death
- Cosmology
- Luck and chance
- Theological systems
- Revelation and divination
- Magic
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Central Thai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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 ; David Sherwood ; 1985
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959-1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1959-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- village of Sagatiam, Nakhon Patom Province, Thailand
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. Ingersoll
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 224)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 32029126
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Thais