Merit, hierarchy and royal gift-giving in traditional Thai society
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2865795 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Alexander Brand (0000-0003-3171-9619, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1975 |
| Volumen | 131 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 111-137 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1975-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Editorial | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-90002683 |
| OpenAlex | W833420426 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 3 |
| Referencias citadas | 1 |
Festivals, rites and processions, already subject of extensive comment in reports of early travellers and ethnologists, have retained their great importance in analysis of traditional states. Anthropologists in search of manifestations of political power have continued to focus on religious rites, cremations and festivals, i.e., on phenomena which ostensibly have nothing much to do with administration and politics. Though Geertz has complained that in their concern for these matters anthropologists are like theologians firmly dedicated to proving indubitable,1 he himself also emphasizes that it is in ritual that we can find the public dramatization of ruling obsessions,2 inter alia obsession with specific secular social ties. To study obsessions or, in different terms, value systems via ritual has an obvious advantage: strength of obsession, as Norbert Elias has hinted, can be correlated with length, frequency and elaborate ness of ritual.3 When one looks at numerous festivals which occurred in traditional Thai society with these considerations in mind, an obvious target for analysis springs to fore, viz. Thot Khatin festival. Thot Khatin means literally laying down of holy cloth, or presentation of monastic robes. As its name indicates, main point of this was presentation, via an enormously elaborate river procession lasting several days, of yellow cloth and other gifts to royal temples. Pomp and circum stance here served to clearly emphasize one fact: king was bestowing gifts and showering bounty upon monks in temples which had often been built thanks to his royal munificence in first place
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Dramatization · Epistemology · Hierarchy · Literature · Nothing · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Presentation (obstetrics · Procession · Sociology · Subject (documents · Value (mathematics · Classics · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Obras citantes distintas | 3 |
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| Citas por año | 0,07 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1986 - 2021 (36) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 3 |