siam in mind
Issued Date
Copyright Date
2023
Resource Type
Edition
1
Language
eng
Book
Book
File Type
application/pdf
No. of Pages/File Size
126
ISBN
9789747551723
Rights Holder(s)
สถาบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติ
Title
Author(s)
Abstract
This slim volume takes the reader on a fascinating stroll through Thailand’s intellectual history -- the thoughts of the people of Siam, and the products of their thought, through history. It is a series of informal sketches, gleaned over years of historical research and stored away for rumination and reflection by one of the foremost historians of Thailand. Wyatt muses about these pieces of history, revealing some of the creative thinking that has been going on in the minds of ordinary and nameless people as well as great and well-known thinkers in Siam for the past thirteen hundred years.
A variety of new thought -- political, religious, and artistic -- has arisen in all sorts of contexts: warfare, trade, administration, and farming, to name a few. Collected here is a valuable historical sampling of these new ideas from the many different regions of what we think of today as Thailand.
Table of contents
List of Plates -- Preface -- I. Introduction
2."Silver Bullet"
3. Relics
4. Nakhon Phanom
S. Ayutthaya and its Neighbors, I3S 1
6. Men at War
7. Angkor and Sukhothai, 1430-14SO
8. Family Politics
9. Sun and Planets, Sons and Plants
I o. Borommakot and Chinese
I I. The Linga Garden
I2. Sexual Variants
I3. Economic Changes
I4. Policy Arguments in Chiang Mai
Is. The Bibliophilic Monk
I6. The Wat Phumin Artist
I7. Modern Historians
18. Education and Chulalongkorn
I9. The Absolute Mikado
20. Modernization without Development
2 I. Soggy Horse
22. The Politician
23. Past, Present, and Future
24. Siam in Mind --
Index --
Plates Ia & b Buddhist boundary stones from Muiang Fa Det and Phnom Kulen --
Plate 2 Sailing ship depicted on stone relief at Buddhist monument of Borobudur
Plate 3 That Phanom monument
Plate 4 Foundation of Ayutthaya, I 3 5 I
Plate 5 Chao Ai Phraya and Chao Yi Phraya duel on elephant-back
Plate 6 Detail of an elephant at war
Plate 7 King Intharacha battles Min Nakhon
Plate 8 Planetary confguration for 30 June 2001 Acrobats from a temple fair in the I770s
Plate 10 The "linga garden" in Bangkok
Plate 11 Punishment of miscreants, from mural painting, Wat Khongkharam
Plate 12 Variant behavior, from mural, Wat Phumin
Plate I3 Bangkok in 1822
Plate 14 Library at Wat Phra Sing, Chiang Mai
Plate 15 Library of Wat Sung Men, Phra province, showing moat to protect manuscripts
Plate 16 Artist and his lady friend, from painting copied from Wat Phumin mural
Plate 17 K.S.R. Kulap and his son Chai
Plate 18 School in Nongkhai province, ca.1928?
Plate 19 Vajiravudh and some of his pages
Plate 20 Cartoon of King Vajiravudh from Dusit Samit
Plate 21 "Chinatown," on Yaowarat Road, ca. I 930
Plate 22 Schoolgirls at the turn of the century
Plate 23 Rubber bales containing heroin split open at Bangkok docks --