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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Verbal arts
- Marriage
- Polygamy
- 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.
- Historian
- 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
- 1989
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Central Thailand
- NotesAdditional notes
- Sumalee Bumroongsook
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-226)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Thais