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Merit and power in the Thai social orderarticle 1962 • Hanks, Lucien M. (Lucien Mason)
Central Thai • Asia > Southeast Asia
This article provides a general discussion of Thai conceptions of “merit” and “power”, considered in relation to the more general scheme which is informed by what Hanks refers to as a “magico-...Rice and man: agricultural ecology in Southeast AsiaBook 1972 • Hanks, Lucien M. (Lucien Mason)
Central Thai • Asia > Southeast Asia
This monograph presents data on the agriculture and ecology of Bang Chan, focusing on shifts in methods of cultivating rice over the course of this century. Some information on the nature of t...Observations on Northern Blackfoot kinshipBook 1966 • Hanks, Lucien M. (Lucien Mason) & Richardson, Jane
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
This monograph is an analysis of the Northern Blackfoot (Siksika) kinship system. The kin terms are enumerated, their ranges of application discussed, and behavior between specific classes of ...Tribe under trustBook 1950 • Hanks, Lucien M. (Lucien Mason) & Hanks, Jane Richardson
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
The Blackfoot Reserve of Alberta has a trust fund from the sale of reservation lands in 1910. The trust fund provides the Indians with a certain degree of social security, yet they are dissati...Bang ChanBook 1978 • Sharp, Lauriston & Hanks, Lucien M. (Lucien Mason)
Central Thai • Asia > Southeast Asia
This document, a product of the Cornell Thailand Project, is a “social history” of Bang Chan from ca. 1850-1960. It is a traditional history, based on the accounts of the villagers. It is, con...