Book
Buddhist monk, Buddhist layman: a study of urban monastic organization in central Tahiland
At the University Press • Cambridge, England • Published In 1973 • Pages:
By: Bunnag, Jane.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is a study of monastic organization and an analysis of “…religious role performance in terms of its correlation with the social and economic status of individual actors” (p. 1). The book contains a summary of the Thai social system, information on “the way of the monk,” the monk and the lay community, the monastery community, the monastery and its social matrix, the role of the Buddhist layman, and a theoretical discussion of the social system.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gift giving
- Income and demand
- Status, role, and prestige
- Social relationships and groups
- Household
- Religious practices
- Ecclesiastical organization
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; 1985
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ayutthaya Changwat (Province), Ayutthaya Amphoe (District), Thailand
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Jane Bunnag
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 210) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72086420
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Thais