Book
Hua Kok: social oragnization in North-Central Thailand
Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing and the Centre of South-East Asian Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury • (5) • Published In 1992 • Pages: xii, 212
By: Kemp, Jeremy, University Of Kent At Canterbury, Centre For Social Anthropology And Computing, Centre Of South-East Asian Studies.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a community study in search of community. Although the village Hua Kok is composed of three hamlets occupying the banks of the Wang Thong river, Kemp finds little in the way of shared political, religious, or economic behavior that would bind all residents together and confer a common identity. This appears to be a classic case of Embree's 'loosely-structured social system,' except that Kemp argues against this model, at least as a concept that describes an enduring feature of Thai culture and society. Kemp claims that the loosely structured community of Hua Kok is the result of the historically recent settlement of the central Thai plain after 1892. While settlers attempted to duplicate traditional communities, frontier conditions, such as plentiful land, and a commercial market in rice and maize undermined the emergence of a corporate peasant community. Kemp provides a detailed ethnographic account of household and family configurations, family histories, inheritance patterns, land owership, labor exchanges, kinship terminology, and religious practices.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Internal migration
- Cereal agriculture
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Marriage
- Family
- Kin relationships
- Community structure
- Congregations
- 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.
- Ethnographer
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 18 -1968
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hua Kok, Thailand
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jeremy Kemp
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-211)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- gb 93033246
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Thais