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Mediums, Monks, and Amulets: Thai Popular Buddhism Today by Pattana Kitiarsa
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.16Mediums, Monks, and Amulets is a sophisticated yet accessible study of the state of popular Buddhist beliefs as they are practiced in Thailand today. Using a combination of focused case studies and... -
Oceans of Longing: Nine Stories by Sitor Situmorang
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £20.82Born into a high-status family of the Batak ethnic group indigenous to North Sumatra, Sitor Situmorang (1924-2014) was a Dutch-educated Indonesian nationalist who experienced firsthand the transition... -
Lao Folktales by Steven Jay Epstein
Booksplease Price: £15.04Here in one slim volume is a selection of the best-known and best-loved Lao folktales that have entertained the Lao people for generations. We meet the legendary trickster Xieng Mieng who matches his... -
The Web of Buddhist Wisdom: An Introduction to the Psychology of the Abhidhamma by Frits Koster
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £29.11Long before the advent of modern psychology, Buddhism offered ways to understand body and mind through introspection and meditation. These efforts yielded a thorough and detailed classification and... -
Thailand and World War II by Direk Jayanama
RRP: £58.95Booksplease Price: £53.78In Thailand and World War II, Direk Jayanama provides a unique, first-hand account of Thailand's diplomatic, military, and economic history between 1938 and 1948. Diplomat, statesman, academic, and... -
Manuscript Cultures and Epigraphy of the Tai World by Volker Grabowsky
RRP: £68.95Booksplease Price: £61.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786162151729Author Volker GrabowskyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Buddhist Murals of Northeast Thailand: Reflections of the Isan Heartland by Bonnie Pacala Brereton
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.00Books on mural painting in Thailand have tended to focus on works commissioned by royalty or other elites from the centers of power. This volume is the first to examine a vibrant sub-school of... -
The Native Tourist: A Holiday Pilgrimage in Myanmar by Ma Thanegi 9789749575628
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.67This is the delightful story of an eighteen-day bus pilgrimage to sixty pagodas across Myanmar. As the author settles into her seat, the aisle blocked with luggage, she trains our eyes on the... -
Chronicle of Sipsong Panna: History and Society of a Tai Lu Kingdom, Twelfth to Twentieth Century by Foon Ming Liew-Herres 9786169005339
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £41.52The Tai Lu are a Tai-speaking group closely related to the Khon Muang or Tai Yuan, the dominant ethnic group in Northern Thailand. According to their own historical tradition, the ancestors of the... -
Guns, Girls, Gambling, Ganja: Thailand's Illegal Economy and Public Policy by Pasuk Phongpaichit 9789747100754
Booksplease Price: £19.88Gambling, prostitution, drugs, arms trading, oil smuggling, and trafficking in people-these six illegal businesses are large and getting larger in Thailand. They distort the economy and victimize... -
Inside Thai Society: Religion, Everyday Life, Change by Niels Mulder 9789747551242
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.63Thailand is often called the "Land of Smiles", a nickname which sounds at once pleasant and mysterious. It is said that the Thais have a smile for every emotion, and with so many nuances of smiling,... -
The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen: Companion Volume by Chris Baker 9786162150531
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £37.64Siam's folk epic of love, war, and tragedyKhun Chang Khun Phaen is one of the most famous works of old Thai literature. The plot is a love story, set against a background of war, and ending in high... -
Recollections of a Hidden Laos: A Photographic Journey by Linda Reinink-Smith
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £29.81So begins this lovely volume of exquisite photographs from Laos, a country whose remote regions are still hidden away to all but a few inquisitive scholars and venturesome travelers. The capital city... -
Mirroring Power: Ethnogenesis and Integration among the Phunoy of Northern Laos by Vanina Boute
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £40.11The Phunoy are a Tibeto-Burmese population group in Phongsaly Province that has long been considered acculturated because of its adoption of various features of neighboring Tai societies,... -
A Brief History of Lan Na: Civilizations of North Thailand by Hans Penth
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.38Lan Na is the name of a conglomerate of Thai city-states that covered roughly the area of modern north Thailand between the 13th and 16th centuries. Mostly under the leadership of the city-state of... -
Scholarship and Engagement in Mainland Southeast Asia by Oscar Salemink
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.55This book contains nine contributions at the intersection of scholarship, activism, and sociocultural politics in mainland Southeast Asia, inspired by the remarkable career of Achan Chayan... -
Buddhism and Buddhist Art: An Illustrated Introduction by Charles F. Chicarelli
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.22Over 180 color photographs from temples, museums, historical sites, and private collections enhance this attractive survey of the Buddhist art of India, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Nepal,... -
A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People by Daguan Zhou
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £30.27Only one person has given us a first-hand account of the civilization of Angkor. This is the Chinese envoy, Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor in 1296-97 and wrote A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its... -
Thai Sex Talk: The Language of Sex and Sexuality in Thailand by Pimpawun Boonmongkon 9786169005353
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14The Thai language has extraordinarily rich, varied, and multi-leveled vocabularies for sexual anatomy, behaviors, identities, and attitudes. The authors of this in-depth study deal directly with the... -
Rights to Culture: Heritage, Language, and Community in Thailand by Coeli Barry 9786162150623
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.16This collection brings together original, small-scale, ethnographic research on minorities, displaced peoples, and communities contesting heritage, livelihood, language, and citizenship in Thailand... -
Everyday Thai for Beginners by Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £31.41Everyday Thai for Beginners is a language textbook with accompanying CD that lays the essential groundwork for mastering authentic spoken Thai. It provides an introduction to the basics of... -
Ethnicity, Borders, and the Grassroots Interface with the State: Studies on Southeast Asia in Honor of Charles F. Keyes by John A. Marston 9786162150722
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.79This volume brings together exciting new research by anthropologists working on mainland Southeast Asia, in honor of anthropologist Charles F. Keyes. It addresses concepts central to Keyes's own... -
Itinerary of an Ordinary Torturer: Interview with Duch, Former Khmer Rouge Commander of S-21 by Christophe Peschoux 9786162151149
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.44Kaing Guek Eav was an ordinary man growing up in Cambodia in the mid-twentieth century. But then, adopting the alias "Duch," he joined the Khmer Rouge and took charge of S-21, the infamous secret... -
Tai Herbalism by Susan Conway 9786162152054
Booksplease Price: £23.15Around the globe, an age-old truth persists: "To annihilate my culture and identity, you must first destroy my language and writing." Whether through deliberate political policies or sheer neglect,... -
The Daughter: A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi by Hans-Bernd Zollner
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.11As the Rohingya crisis exploded, observers of Myanmar were shocked to see Aung San Suu Kyi, champion for the causes of liberal democracy and human rights, stand by as atrocities tore apart the... -
Ethnic and Religious Identities and Integration in Southeast Asia by Ooi Keat Gin
Booksplease Price: £45.51The research presented in this volume analyzes the impact of ethnic change and religious traditions on local, national, and regional identities. Case studies include the Bru population in... -
Cashing In across the Golden Triangle: Thailand's Northern Border Trade with China, Laos, and Myanmar by Thein Swe
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.35Historically, the Golden Triangle on the Mekong River has been a strategic yet largely impoverished crossroads between Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and southern China. In the latter half of the 20th... -
Why the Sea Is Full of Salt and Other Vietnamese Folktales by Minh Tran Huy
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.42This delightful anthology presents eighteen well-known and much-loved Vietnamese folktales. Originally collected and retold by the prize-winning author Minh Tran Huy, they are here elegantly... -
The Timeless Heritage of Thailand by Jim Wageman 9786162151514
RRP: £58.95Booksplease Price: £56.12From artifacts of ancient pre-Thai civilizations to achievements of the Thai kingdom in the early twentieth century, the enduring vestiges and persistent vitality of Thai heritage continue to entice... -
The Ninth Panchen Lama (1883-1937): A Life at the Crossroads of Sino-Tibetan Relations by Fabienne Jagou 9786162150166
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £40.77This biography of the Ninth Panchen Lama, the second highest spiritual authority in Tibetan Buddhism, offers new insights into the tumultuous history of the relations between China and Tibet at the... -
The Man Who Accused the King of Killing a Fish: The Biography of Narin Phasit of Siam, 1874-1950 by Peter Koret 9786162150432
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £29.97Narin Phasit was one of the most remarkable yet little-known figures in the annals of Thai history, a man who devoted his life to what the seventh king of Siam called "seeking a name for himself in a... -
Protecting Siam's Heritage by Chris Baker 9786162150593
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £34.03The cultural heritage of Siam is exceptionally rich and distinctive. As everywhere, this heritage is under threat-from the pace of change, from the demands of tourism, from mismanagement, and from... -
The Ten Great Birth Stories of the Buddha: The Mahanipata of the Jatakatthavanonoana by Naomi Appleton 9786162151132
RRP: £58.95Booksplease Price: £55.20This is the first complete English translation in over a century of the ten great jataka tales covering the Bodhisatta's final adventures in the human realm before his ultimate life and enlightenment... -
The Diary of Kosa Pan: Thai Ambassador to France, June-July 1686 by Visudh Busayakul 9789747551587
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £19.21This account of Kosa Pan's journal describes in great detail the arrival in Brest in 1686 of the first full Siamese embassy to reach France. This fragment is apparently all that survives of a massive... -
Thai Ways by Denis Segaller 9789749575734
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.73Thai Ways is a delightful collection of almost everything the curious visitor might want to know about Thai customs and beliefs, engagingly explained by a long-time English resident of Thailand... -
The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen: Siam's Great Folk Epic of Love and War by Chris Baker 9786162150456
RRP: £73.95Booksplease Price: £69.23Siam's folk epic of love, war, and tragedyKhun Chang Khun Phaen is one of the most famous works of old Thai literature. The plot is a love story, set against a background of war, and ending in high... -
Red Gerberas: Short Stories by Sitor Situmorang
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £20.95Sitor Situmorang, one of the most celebrated Indonesian literary voices of the twentieth century, claimed that all his work dealt with a single theme-"love and wanderlust," which are "two aspects of... -
The Shift in Zakat Practice in Indonesia: From Piety to an Islamic Socio-Political-Economic System by Arskal Salim
Booksplease Price: £16.43Zakat, one of Islam's Five Pillars, is the practice of giving a fixed proportion of one's financial assets to those in need, thereby purifying both one's soul and one's remaining wealth. In... -
Gender and the Path to Awakening: Hidden Histories of Nuns in Modern Thai Buddhism by Martin Seeger
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £36.42In Gender and the Path to Awakening, Martin Seeger lays out the nuances and varying conceptions of female renunciation in modern Thai Buddhism. Centered on long-term textual and ethnographic research... -
The Story of King Lo: Lilit Phra Lo by Robert J. Bickner
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £16.40Highly regarded as an important part of the poetic heritage of Thailand, The Story of King Law received royal acclaim in 1914 and is included in official school curricula. All students of Thai...