The Good People of Isan

Commercial Sex in Northeast Thailand

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3377587
AutoresChris Lyttleton (0000-0002-8104-6953, The University of Sydney, autor de correspondencia)
Año1994
Volumen5
Número1-2
Páginas257-279
Fecha de publicación1994-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Australian Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1035-8811 • E-ISSN: 1757-6547
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1835-9310.1994.tb00180.x
OpenAlexW2057856053
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas14

Recent academic literature focusing on prostitution in Thailand has mostly represented it as a singular phenomenon understood by monocausal analyses which rely on varieties of economic or cultural determinism. By contrast, in this paper I seek to tease out how various factors, economic, cultural and personal, operate to provide very different outcomes in individual lives. There are two specific issues that I focus on. Firstly, while most reports on Thai prostitution draw on data from the North, the Northeast region (Isan), where I conducted fieldwork, differs in most important ways in how people interact with and relate to the presence of commercial sex. Secondly, I suggest that we must examine individual choices and motivations implicated in the different contexts in which commercial sex is found, so that we might fruitfully conceptualise the ideologies and social practices that inform prostitution as it evolves in Thailand

Determinism · Epistemology · Ideology · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Sex work and related issues · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies