Pattana Kitiarsa
Biographic Data
| ID | 241690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pattana Kitiarsa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pattana |
| FAMILY NAME | Kitiarsa |
| SIGNATURE | KITIARSA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
From Sex Tourist to Son-in-Law
Farang (foreign, Caucasian) men have played a significant role in Thai society for several decades as sex tourists and, more recently, as farang sons-in-law, men who marry Thai wives and often settle down in rural Thai villages. While both of these phenomena have received considerable attention, in neither case have the experiences and motivations of the farang men involved been adequately examined. Based on fieldwork in Bangkok and the northeast…
Mediums, Monks and Amulets
Mediums, 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 analysis, Pattana Kitiarsa explores the nature and evolution of popular Buddhism over the past three decades by focusing on those individuals who practice, popularize, and profit from it. The case studies profiled include prominent spirit mediums and m…
Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia
Leading scholars working on Buddhism and politics in South and Southeast Asia add to current discussions regarding 'Engaged Buddhism' and the recent work on protests. The writers have mostly establish
Toward a Sociology of Religious Commodification
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Toward a Sociology of Religious Commodification Defining Religious Commodification Contextualizing the Studies of Religious Commodification Fundamentalism, De-Secularism, and Pietism The Making of Marketable Religious Commodities Religious Commodification in Thailand: the Mega Amulet Craze of Chatukham-Rammathep Fetishizing and Marketing a Mega Amulet Conclusion Bibliography
Missionary Intent and Monastic Networks
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Buddha-izing a Global City-State
10.1080/17450101003665184
The lyrics of laborious life
10.1080/14649370902949374
Beyond the Weberian Trails
Theravada Buddhism is one of the most important fields of inquiry within a larger context of Southeast Asian studies. In this essay, I discuss an overview of anthropolo gical studies of Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia since the 1960s. I argue that key intellectual and social forces, which have characterized and sustained the anthropological studies of Buddhism in the region, are the combination of the following factors: (1) an insistent and …
The Rise and Decline of Thai Absolutism
Thai migrants in Singapore
In this article, I analyse Thai migration to Singapore, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork (2004–06) to discuss the experiences of male construction workers and female sex workers in negotiating heterosexuality during their temporary residence. I argue that these Thai migrants engage in transient heterosexual encounters as one of many calculated, strategic ways of negotiating their intimate identity and subjectivity in the survival circuits of thi…
Civil Society and Democratization
Muai Thai Cinema and the Burdens of Thai Men
Competing cultures among Thai men have not yet been fully explored in the studies of Thai films released since the economic crisis of 1997. In this article, the author chooses to study a selection of four muai Thai films - Muai Thai, Nai Khanom Tom [Mr Khanom Tom: A Muai Thai Legend] (2003), Ong Bak (2003), Tom Yum Goong [The Protector] (2005) and Beautiful Boxer (2004) - to examine gendered tensions and changing cultures of Thai men after the 19…
Religious Commodifications in Asia
Faiths and Films
Magic monks and spirit mediums in the politics of Thai popular religion
In this article, I read the politics of popular religion in Thailand through the case studies of magic monks and spirit mediums, which have been traditional key actors in the popular religious domain and have maintained their lasting popularity in the country in the 1990s and 2000s. Positioning my argument in the context of the much‐criticized commercialization of Buddhism, I accentuate that magic monkhood and spirit mediumship have exhibited the…
Lives of Hunting Dogs’
In this article, the author uses case studies of muai Thai (Thai boxing),2 based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the provincial town of Nakhon Ratchasima and its vicinity between early 2000 and mid-2001, to engage critically with the current trend of gender studies in Thailand. The article argues that muai Thai, with its historical and cultural prominence, presents itself as an ideal candidate for Thai studies practitioners and students …
Beyond Syncretism
this article challenges the dominant paradigm of ‘inclusive syncretism’ in the study of thai religion. by taking the worship of multi-original deities in the popular spirit-medium cults in contemporary thailand as a case study, it argues that practitioners and specialists working on thai religious studies need to refresh and update their analytical paradigm to incorporate the concept of ‘hybridization’
Religious Commodifications in Asia
Beyond Syncretism
this article challenges the dominant paradigm of ‘inclusive syncretism’ in the study of thai religion. by taking the worship of multi-original deities in the popular spirit-medium cults in contemporary thailand as a case study, it argues that practitioners and specialists working on thai religious studies need to refresh and update their analytical paradigm to incorporate the concept of ‘hybridization’
Thai migrants in Singapore
In this article, I analyse Thai migration to Singapore, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork (2004–06) to discuss the experiences of male construction workers and female sex workers in negotiating heterosexuality during their temporary residence. I argue that these Thai migrants engage in transient heterosexual encounters as one of many calculated, strategic ways of negotiating their intimate identity and subjectivity in the survival circuits of thi…
From Sex Tourist to Son-in-Law
Farang (foreign, Caucasian) men have played a significant role in Thai society for several decades as sex tourists and, more recently, as farang sons-in-law, men who marry Thai wives and often settle down in rural Thai villages. While both of these phenomena have received considerable attention, in neither case have the experiences and motivations of the farang men involved been adequately examined. Based on fieldwork in Bangkok and the northeast…
Lives of Hunting Dogs’
In this article, the author uses case studies of muai Thai (Thai boxing),2 based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the provincial town of Nakhon Ratchasima and its vicinity between early 2000 and mid-2001, to engage critically with the current trend of gender studies in Thailand. The article argues that muai Thai, with its historical and cultural prominence, presents itself as an ideal candidate for Thai studies practitioners and students …
Magic monks and spirit mediums in the politics of Thai popular religion
In this article, I read the politics of popular religion in Thailand through the case studies of magic monks and spirit mediums, which have been traditional key actors in the popular religious domain and have maintained their lasting popularity in the country in the 1990s and 2000s. Positioning my argument in the context of the much‐criticized commercialization of Buddhism, I accentuate that magic monkhood and spirit mediumship have exhibited the…
Mediums, Monks and Amulets
Mediums, 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 analysis, Pattana Kitiarsa explores the nature and evolution of popular Buddhism over the past three decades by focusing on those individuals who practice, popularize, and profit from it. The case studies profiled include prominent spirit mediums and m…
Buddha-izing a Global City-State
10.1080/17450101003665184
The lyrics of laborious life
10.1080/14649370902949374
Beyond the Weberian Trails
Theravada Buddhism is one of the most important fields of inquiry within a larger context of Southeast Asian studies. In this essay, I discuss an overview of anthropolo gical studies of Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia since the 1960s. I argue that key intellectual and social forces, which have characterized and sustained the anthropological studies of Buddhism in the region, are the combination of the following factors: (1) an insistent and …
Muai Thai Cinema and the Burdens of Thai Men
Competing cultures among Thai men have not yet been fully explored in the studies of Thai films released since the economic crisis of 1997. In this article, the author chooses to study a selection of four muai Thai films - Muai Thai, Nai Khanom Tom [Mr Khanom Tom: A Muai Thai Legend] (2003), Ong Bak (2003), Tom Yum Goong [The Protector] (2005) and Beautiful Boxer (2004) - to examine gendered tensions and changing cultures of Thai men after the 19…
Missionary Intent and Monastic Networks
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Civil Society and Democratization
Magic monks and spirit mediums in the politics of Thai popular religion
In this article, I read the politics of popular religion in Thailand through the case studies of magic monks and spirit mediums, which have been traditional key actors in the popular religious domain and have maintained their lasting popularity in the country in the 1990s and 2000s. Positioning my argument in the context of the much‐criticized commercialization of Buddhism, I accentuate that magic monkhood and spirit mediumship have exhibited the…
Lives of Hunting Dogs’
In this article, the author uses case studies of muai Thai (Thai boxing),2 based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the provincial town of Nakhon Ratchasima and its vicinity between early 2000 and mid-2001, to engage critically with the current trend of gender studies in Thailand. The article argues that muai Thai, with its historical and cultural prominence, presents itself as an ideal candidate for Thai studies practitioners and students …
Beyond Syncretism
this article challenges the dominant paradigm of ‘inclusive syncretism’ in the study of thai religion. by taking the worship of multi-original deities in the popular spirit-medium cults in contemporary thailand as a case study, it argues that practitioners and specialists working on thai religious studies need to refresh and update their analytical paradigm to incorporate the concept of ‘hybridization’
Faiths and Films
Muai Thai Cinema and the Burdens of Thai Men
Competing cultures among Thai men have not yet been fully explored in the studies of Thai films released since the economic crisis of 1997. In this article, the author chooses to study a selection of four muai Thai films - Muai Thai, Nai Khanom Tom [Mr Khanom Tom: A Muai Thai Legend] (2003), Ong Bak (2003), Tom Yum Goong [The Protector] (2005) and Beautiful Boxer (2004) - to examine gendered tensions and changing cultures of Thai men after the 19…
Religious Commodifications in Asia
The Rise and Decline of Thai Absolutism
Thai migrants in Singapore
In this article, I analyse Thai migration to Singapore, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork (2004–06) to discuss the experiences of male construction workers and female sex workers in negotiating heterosexuality during their temporary residence. I argue that these Thai migrants engage in transient heterosexual encounters as one of many calculated, strategic ways of negotiating their intimate identity and subjectivity in the survival circuits of thi…
Civil Society and Democratization
The lyrics of laborious life
10.1080/14649370902949374
Beyond the Weberian Trails
Theravada Buddhism is one of the most important fields of inquiry within a larger context of Southeast Asian studies. In this essay, I discuss an overview of anthropolo gical studies of Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia since the 1960s. I argue that key intellectual and social forces, which have characterized and sustained the anthropological studies of Buddhism in the region, are the combination of the following factors: (1) an insistent and …
Toward a Sociology of Religious Commodification
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Toward a Sociology of Religious Commodification Defining Religious Commodification Contextualizing the Studies of Religious Commodification Fundamentalism, De-Secularism, and Pietism The Making of Marketable Religious Commodities Religious Commodification in Thailand: the Mega Amulet Craze of Chatukham-Rammathep Fetishizing and Marketing a Mega Amulet Conclusion Bibliography
Missionary Intent and Monastic Networks
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Buddha-izing a Global City-State
10.1080/17450101003665184
Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia
Leading scholars working on Buddhism and politics in South and Southeast Asia add to current discussions regarding 'Engaged Buddhism' and the recent work on protests. The writers have mostly establish
Mediums, Monks and Amulets
Mediums, 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 analysis, Pattana Kitiarsa explores the nature and evolution of popular Buddhism over the past three decades by focusing on those individuals who practice, popularize, and profit from it. The case studies profiled include prominent spirit mediums and m…
From Sex Tourist to Son-in-Law
Farang (foreign, Caucasian) men have played a significant role in Thai society for several decades as sex tourists and, more recently, as farang sons-in-law, men who marry Thai wives and often settle down in rural Thai villages. While both of these phenomena have received considerable attention, in neither case have the experiences and motivations of the farang men involved been adequately examined. Based on fieldwork in Bangkok and the northeast…
Political science (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Buddhism (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works)