Tai Lands and Thailand: Community and the State in Southeast Asia

Studies of the Tai world often treat "state" and "community" as polar opposites: the state produces administrative uniformity and commercialization while community sustains tradition, local knowledge, and subsistence economy. This assumption leads to the conclusion that the traditional community is undermined by the modern forces of state incorporation and market penetration. States rule and communities resist.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824833597
• ISBN13: 9780824833596
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"