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Communities of Potential: Social Assemblages in Thailand and Beyond

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Description for Communities of Potential: Social Assemblages in Thailand and Beyond Paperback. Editor(s): Tanabe, Shigeharu. Num Pages: 270 pages, 1 illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.

This multiauthor volume provides fresh ways of looking at community movements and social actors in Thailand and beyond. The chapters cover a range of movements, from personal and social development based on Buddhist principles to community movements centered on other religious, spiritual, and traditional practices. Community movements differ markedly from the classic social movements of the early twentieth century and the subsequent “new social movements.” Anthropologist Shigeharu Tanabe and Thai and Japanese colleagues explain that a key feature of these community movements is “assemblage”— individuals or groups coming together in networks that enable them to realize their potential. Building on ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Chiang Mai, Thailand
ISBN
9786162151170
SKU
V9786162151170
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About Tanabe
Shigeharu Tanabe is professor emeritus at the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan and currently teaches social anthropology at Chiang Mai University.

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