Materializing Thailand
- 作者: Van Esterik, Penny.
- 出版: Oxford ;New York : Berg 2000.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) :illustrations.
- 叢書名: Materializing culture
- 標題: Sex role Thailand. , Electronic books. , Thaïlande Conditions sociales. , Bouddhisme et civilisation. , SOCIAL SCIENCE , Thaïlande , POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. , Material culture. , SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology -- Cultural. , Sekseverschillen. , Sex role , SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture. , AnthropologyCultural. , Social conditions. , Rôle selon le sexe , Public PolicyCultural Policy. , Popular Culture. , Sex role. , POLITICAL SCIENCE , Thailand , Thailand Social conditions. , Rôle selon le sexe Thaïlande. , Culture matérielle , Material culture , Materiële cultuur. , Buddhism and culture. , Conditions sociales. , Thailand. , Social conditions , Culture matérielle Thaïlande. , Material culture Thailand.
- ISBN: 1000181243 , 9781000181241
- ISBN: 1859733069 , 9781859733066 , 1859733115 , 9781859733110 , 1859733654 , 9781859733653 , 1859733700 , 9781859733707
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-268) and index. Crafting Thailand -- Ordering the past : representations of Thai women -- Buddhism and gender ideology -- Representing Thai culture -- Deconstructing display : gender and beauty -- Prostitution and foreign bodies -- Modelling Thai gender relations -- Context and continuity : grasshoppers, turtles and feminists.
- 摘要: "Thailand has become well known throughout the world for wonderful cuisine, great package holidays, sumptuous temples and textiles. Noticeably absent from glossy tourist brochures but equally well known throughout the Western world is Thailand's seedier side - the world of child exploitation, rampant prostitution and AIDS. Thailand maintains its appeal by slipping the ugly and painful out of sight and by promoting women as exotic visual icons through beauty contests, state rituals and the sex trade. This book explores the construction of gender in Thailand and in particular the role Bangkok plays in establishing gender relations for the whole of the country. It examines the historical and cultural processes underlying Thai public culture, including historical theme parks. The author demonstrates how the materiality of the Thai world shapes gender relations and how Buddhism discourages essentialisms, including fixed binary gender identities. Throughout the book, appearances are shown to be critically important, and the essentialism of gender is maintained through display, public presentations, and everyday material practices. Anyone wishing to understand the complexity of Thailand will find this book provides a highly readable and insightful analysis."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- 電子資源: https://dbs.tnua.edu.tw/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=74560
- 系統號: 005299731
- 資料類型: 電子書
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Thailand has become well known throughout the world for wonderful cuisine, great package holidays, sumptuous temples and textiles. Noticeably absent from glossy tourist brochures but equally well known throughout the Western world is Thailand's seedier side - the world of child exploitation, rampant prostitution and AIDS. Thailand maintains its appeal by slipping the ugly and painful out of sight and by promoting women as exotic visual icons through beauty contests, state rituals and the sex trade. This book explores the construction of gender in Thailand and in particular the role Bangkok plays in establishing gender relations for the whole of the country. It examines the historical and cultural processes underlying Thai public culture, including historical theme parks. The author demonstrates how the materiality of the Thai world shapes gender relations and how Buddhism discourages essentialisms, including fixed binary gender identities. Throughout the book, appearances are shown to be critically important, and the essentialism of gender is maintained through display, public presentations, and everyday material practices. Anyone wishing to understand the complexity of Thailand will find this book provides a highly readable and insightful analysis.
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