Book

Buddhist monk, Buddhist layman: a study of urban monastic organization in central Tahiland

At the University PressCambridge, EnglandPublished 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