Book
Roster of the gods: an ethnography of the supernatural in a Thai village
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 1973 • Pages: 3, 44, 911 leaves
By: Textor, Robert B., Cornell University. Southeast Asia Program, Yale University. Southeast Asia Studies.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study attempts to describe naturalistically, and to analyze, the cognitive, structural, and functional aspects of one major sub-domain of the total domain of religio-magical belief and behavior in Bang Chan, a rural village in central Thailand. This sub-domain, which Textor terms the “amoral-manipulative system,” consists of 114 “supernatural objects,” i.e., spirits, ghosts, sacred objects, and various other culturally standardized entities that possess supernatural power to reward or punish an individual. Textor shows how villagers make choices among supernatural objects culturally available to them as they seek to achieve a particular reward or avoid a particular punishment.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Magical and mental therapy
- Burial practices and funerals
- Cult of the dead
- Religious beliefs
- Religious practices
- Prophets and ascetics
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- David Sherwood ; 1984
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1952-1971
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1952-1971
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bang Chan, Thailand
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Robert B. Textor
- The household survey on which Textor bases certain
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 829)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82202960
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Thais