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Explores newly emerging communities in Thailand

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Imagined and Imagining Communities / Shigeharu Tanabe

1. Policing the Imagined Family and Children in Thailand: From Family Name to Emotional Love / Thanes Wongyannava

2. An "Imagining" Community: The Case of Sisa Asoke, Si Sa Ket Province / Kanoksak Kaewthep

3. Constructing and Maintaining the Ta-la-ku Community: The Karen along the Thai-Myanmar Border / Kwanchewan Buadaeng

4. Making Sense of Place: A Case Study of Vendors and Small Entrepreneurs in the Chiang Mai Night Bazaar / Apinya Fuengfusakul

5. The Romantic Ethic and the Notion of Modern Society: Imagining Communities among Northern Thai Factory Women / Kyonosuke Hirai

6. Suffering, Community, and Self-Government: HIV / AIDS Self-Help Groups in Northern Thailand / Shigeharu Tanabe

Reflections: Imagined and Imagining Communities / Roger Goodman

References
List of Contributors
Index

About the Author

Shigeharu Tanabe is professor of anthropology at Otani University, Kyoto. He is the coeditor (with Charles F. Keyes) of Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos.