Book
Love and marriage: mate selection in tewntieth-century central Thailand
Produced by Thai Studies Section Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Chulalongkorn University Press • (4) • Published In 1995 • Pages: xii, 252
By: Sumālī Bamrungsuk.
Abstract
This is a study in the changes in parental authority, mate selection and courtship in 20th-century Central Thailand. It is based on archival material and interviews. Sumalee Bumroongsook has researched a large body of archival material which is listed in a 35-page bibliography and includes autobiographies, family genealogies, biographies (or 'cremation volumes'), laws, court records, love letters, magazine articles, newspaper columns, novels, school textbooks, popular songs, folk tales, and surveys. She discusses how changes from a monastic-based to a public and universal education system, increase in employment opportunities for young men and women, and urban migration have undermined parental authority over mate selection and generally loosened morals surrounding courtship behavior and premarital gender interactions. She also looks at polygyny, divorce, and remarriage. There are 18 photographs.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 1998
- Field Date
- 1989
- Coverage Date
- 1900-1990
- Coverage Place
- Central Thailand
- Notes
- Sumalee Bumroongsook
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-226)
- LCSH
- Thais