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A rural Thai village's view of human character
Felicitation volumes of Southeast-Asian studies presented to His Highness Prince Dhaninivat Kromamun Bidyalabh Bridhyokorn…on the occasion of his eightieth birthday • 1 • Published In 1965 • Pages: 77-84
By: Hanks, Jane Richardson.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This short source describes some key ideas about human character among Bang Chan villagers. Principally, the author describes notions about life's “two vital essences” as seen by rural Thai, the KHWAN and the WINYAN. Their relationship to Buddhist ideas about reincarnation and merit-making is discussed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Social personality
- Status, role, and prestige
- Eschatology
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Revelation and divination
- Ethnoanatomy
- Ethnopsychology
- 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
- essay
- 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 ; 1985
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bang Chan, Thailand
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Jane Richardson Hanks
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Thais