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Patterns of land ownership in central Thailand during the twentieth century
Journal of the Siam Society • 64 (1) • Published In 1976 • Pages: 237-274
By: Stifel, Laurence D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper examines the changing patterns of land ownership in two central Thai provinces, Ayuthia and Nakhon Pathon, since 1910. Additional information relate to rate of land transfers, trends in the equality of land ownership, the degree of land mortgaging, the nature of the landlord-tenant relationship, and general data on the basic rice economy of the region.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Sociocultural trends
- Real property
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Borrowing and lending
- Renting and leasing
- Inheritance
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Economist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 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
- 1910-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ayuthis (Ayutthaya?) and Nakhon Pathom provinces in the Chao Phyia (Chao Phraya?) delta, Thailand
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Laurence D. Stifel
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Thais