Yoko Hayami
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoko Hayami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoko |
| FAMILY NAME | Hayami |
| SIGNATURE | HAYAMI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Niikura Hisano. The Vulnerabilities of Aging Thai Women in Japan: Transnational Social Spaces and Embedded Gender Norms . Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2024, 252p
Labour of Devotion: Material Construction and Charisma of Saintly Monks in the Myanmar–Thai Border Region
The Myanmar–Thai border area has been the stage for charismatic monks revered by the populace following three religious traditions: the northern Thai tradition of khruba worship, Myanmar Buddhism in the peripheries, and Karen history of seeking variable millenarian leaders. Their practices are characterised by the construction of large Buddhist structures; the formation of a community of devotees; ascetic and/or moral practices; and a diversity o…
Between State and Family: Biopolitics of Elderly Care and a Case of Emerging Communality in Northern Thailand
In Thailand, from the beginning of this century, policies on aging, health promotion reform toward enlightening the public, and administrative decentralization have been taking place, leading to the reinforcement of biopolitics in elderly care. “Community” became a useful locus and tool to carry out governance of health and elderly care. At the same time, within state-initiated programs there is local agency at work, which mobilizes existing soci…
Karen Culture of Evangelism and Early Baptist Mission in Nineteenth Century Burma
The success story of nineteenth-century Baptist missionary work among minority ethnic groups in Burma was one well-known facet of the early beginnings of modern Protestant missions. Behind this success was the extensive travel and evangelizing work done by native Karen Christians. In the face of the unexpected speed and zeal with which the Karen converts spread the gospel, to which I apply the term “culture of evangelism”, the Baptist mission in …
Slow Anthropology: Negotiating Difference with the Iu Mien
Pagoda Construction and Saintly Charisma: Religious Movements in the Thai-Myanmar Border Region
Seeking Haven and Seeking Jobs: Migrant Workers' Networks in Two Thai Locales
Thailand has seen a large increase in migrant workers from Myanmar since the 1990s. A constant flow of migrants arrive to seek refuge from dire circumstances in their homeland and/or to seek better work opportunities. They have adapted to changing state policy regarding their migrant status and work permits as well as to more immediate means of control. Previous works on this subject have tended either toward macro-level policy and economics, or …
Pagodas and Prophets: Contesting Sacred Space and Power among Buddhist Karen in Karen State
This paper analyzes multi-layered religious practices among local Buddhist Karen on the plains of Karen State in Burma, within the context of the larger socio-political dynamics of Burmese Buddhism. The purpose is threefold: first, to give ethnographic details of the hybrid nature of religious practices among Buddhist Pwo Karen, thereby demonstrating how sacred space and power are contested, despite the strong hand of the state; second, to challe…
Morality, sexuality and mobility: Changing moral discourse and self
Introduction to Part II
Methamphetamine use and correlates in two villages of the highland ethnic Karen minority in northern Thailand: A cross sectional study
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of methamphetamine use and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence are high in lowland Thai society. Despite increasing social and cultural mixing among residents of highland and lowland Thai societies, however, little is known about methamphetamine use among ethnic minority villagers in the highlands. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey examined Karen villagers from a developed and a less-developed village on Februa…
Connecting House to House: Social Practices of Karen Swidden Farmers in Bago Yomas
During the period of British administration, certain areas in the Bago mountains were designated as Karen Reserve Forest.Today, the same area is still reserved for Sgaw Karen farmers who cultivate swidden fields.This paper starts by briefly examining the historical continuity of forest administration of this region from colonial times to the present, including the period of post-independence internal conflict which deeply affected the area.The pu…
Negotiating Ethnic Representation between Self and Other: The Case of Karen and Eco-tourism in Thailand
Morality, sexuality and mobility
This chapter addresses the changing discourse on &s;sexuality&s; in the context of the dynamics of Karen positioning in the hills of Thailand. It discusses how ‘sexuality’ is embedded in varied other discursive contexts. Far from being prim and humourless hill people, life and conversation in a Thai Karen village is rich with sexual banter and connotations. What is interpreted by Westerners as codes of morality and sexuality is embedded in the co…
Introduction to Part II
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the part two of this book. The part focuses on social life in the Karen communities, especially on aspects related to the marital bond. It discusses teenage culture among Pwo Karen youths, beginning from the pre-marital courtship, emphasizing romance, the joys and anxieties of adolescence. Of all the courtship occasions, funeral singing is depicted as the most exciting for Ka…
Jane Richardson Hanks, and Lucien Mason Hanks. Tribes of the North Thailand Frontier . Monograph 51. Yale University Southeast Asian Studies, 2001, xlviii+319p.+map
Oldest Brother's Story: Tales of the Pwo Karen
Writer Elizabeth Hinton collected and translated the folktales in this volume during her stay in the Pwo Karen village of Dong Luang in the hills of northern Thailand, in 1968 and 1969. She places the stories in the context of the people she knew there, endearingly framed by their human relationships, daily routines, and cycle of seasons-indeed, the very stuff from which the stories themselves spring. The tales are woven into the village's unchan…
Two Tai Studies Meetings in Bangkok, 1998
An Ethnography of “Ethnic Group” and Gender: Choices Made by Karen Women in Northern Thailand
The s dy of ethnicity has long since moved from a rea ist version of " ethnic group ' which attri butes concrete and observable cultural and ether traits to such groups to a more s tuational fluctuating and subjectively defined view of ethnicity However httle attention has been paid to the fact that even as ethnic boundaries are negotiable and fluctuating and even as the contents of these boundaries are never substantively definable it is women m…
Motherhood Redefined: Women’s Choices on Family Rituals and Reproduction in the Peripheries of Thailand
This paper considers changes in the family, especially in the ideology of motherhood and reproduction among the Karen minority ethnic group in the periphery of Thailand as seen through family ritual and birth control and women's choices thereof. It analyses how motherhood and reproductive roles are defined in social and cultural processes, especially ritual, and how women are placed at the centre of tradition through these roles. Such processes a…
Internal and External Discurse of Communality, Tradition and Environment: Minority Claims on Forest in the Northern Hills of Thailand
Karen Tradition According to Christ or Buddha: The Implications of Multiple Reinterpretations for a Minority Ethnic Group in Thailand
This article discusses the significance of religious diversity for a minority ethnic group (the Karen) in the midst of integration into the Thai nation state, addressing both the historical and cultural momentum of initial acceptance, and the subsequent diversifying reformulation and redefinition of identity and community through the adopted religions
The Highland Heritage: Collected Essays on Upland North Thailand
Buddhist Missionary Project in the Hills of Northern Thailand: A Case Study from a Cluster of Karen Villages
From 1964 to 1965 the Thai Govemment and sangha togethe ched a project to send missiomary monks among the h dwe g non -Th ethnic minority groups in the North with e obvious airn ofpOlitical and administrative purposes Moreover the effects of the pr ) ject at least in its init stages have been questioned Most of these reports and c dsms were made in the early stages of the prect and there have since been fw reports om the scene Based on observatio…
Pagodas and Prophets: Contesting Sacred Space and Power among Buddhist Karen in Karen State
This paper analyzes multi-layered religious practices among local Buddhist Karen on the plains of Karen State in Burma, within the context of the larger socio-political dynamics of Burmese Buddhism. The purpose is threefold: first, to give ethnographic details of the hybrid nature of religious practices among Buddhist Pwo Karen, thereby demonstrating how sacred space and power are contested, despite the strong hand of the state; second, to challe…
Karen Tradition According to Christ or Buddha: The Implications of Multiple Reinterpretations for a Minority Ethnic Group in Thailand
This article discusses the significance of religious diversity for a minority ethnic group (the Karen) in the midst of integration into the Thai nation state, addressing both the historical and cultural momentum of initial acceptance, and the subsequent diversifying reformulation and redefinition of identity and community through the adopted religions
Karen Culture of Evangelism and Early Baptist Mission in Nineteenth Century Burma
The success story of nineteenth-century Baptist missionary work among minority ethnic groups in Burma was one well-known facet of the early beginnings of modern Protestant missions. Behind this success was the extensive travel and evangelizing work done by native Karen Christians. In the face of the unexpected speed and zeal with which the Karen converts spread the gospel, to which I apply the term “culture of evangelism”, the Baptist mission in …
Motherhood Redefined: Women’s Choices on Family Rituals and Reproduction in the Peripheries of Thailand
This paper considers changes in the family, especially in the ideology of motherhood and reproduction among the Karen minority ethnic group in the periphery of Thailand as seen through family ritual and birth control and women's choices thereof. It analyses how motherhood and reproductive roles are defined in social and cultural processes, especially ritual, and how women are placed at the centre of tradition through these roles. Such processes a…
The Highland Heritage: Collected Essays on Upland North Thailand
Buddhist Missionary Project in the Hills of Northern Thailand: A Case Study from a Cluster of Karen Villages
From 1964 to 1965 the Thai Govemment and sangha togethe ched a project to send missiomary monks among the h dwe g non -Th ethnic minority groups in the North with e obvious airn ofpOlitical and administrative purposes Moreover the effects of the pr ) ject at least in its init stages have been questioned Most of these reports and c dsms were made in the early stages of the prect and there have since been fw reports om the scene Based on observatio…
The Highland Heritage: Collected Essays on Upland North Thailand
Karen Tradition According to Christ or Buddha: The Implications of Multiple Reinterpretations for a Minority Ethnic Group in Thailand
This article discusses the significance of religious diversity for a minority ethnic group (the Karen) in the midst of integration into the Thai nation state, addressing both the historical and cultural momentum of initial acceptance, and the subsequent diversifying reformulation and redefinition of identity and community through the adopted religions
Internal and External Discurse of Communality, Tradition and Environment: Minority Claims on Forest in the Northern Hills of Thailand
An Ethnography of “Ethnic Group” and Gender: Choices Made by Karen Women in Northern Thailand
The s dy of ethnicity has long since moved from a rea ist version of " ethnic group ' which attri butes concrete and observable cultural and ether traits to such groups to a more s tuational fluctuating and subjectively defined view of ethnicity However httle attention has been paid to the fact that even as ethnic boundaries are negotiable and fluctuating and even as the contents of these boundaries are never substantively definable it is women m…
Motherhood Redefined: Women’s Choices on Family Rituals and Reproduction in the Peripheries of Thailand
This paper considers changes in the family, especially in the ideology of motherhood and reproduction among the Karen minority ethnic group in the periphery of Thailand as seen through family ritual and birth control and women's choices thereof. It analyses how motherhood and reproductive roles are defined in social and cultural processes, especially ritual, and how women are placed at the centre of tradition through these roles. Such processes a…
Two Tai Studies Meetings in Bangkok, 1998
Oldest Brother's Story: Tales of the Pwo Karen
Writer Elizabeth Hinton collected and translated the folktales in this volume during her stay in the Pwo Karen village of Dong Luang in the hills of northern Thailand, in 1968 and 1969. She places the stories in the context of the people she knew there, endearingly framed by their human relationships, daily routines, and cycle of seasons-indeed, the very stuff from which the stories themselves spring. The tales are woven into the village's unchan…
Jane Richardson Hanks, and Lucien Mason Hanks. Tribes of the North Thailand Frontier . Monograph 51. Yale University Southeast Asian Studies, 2001, xlviii+319p.+map
Morality, sexuality and mobility
This chapter addresses the changing discourse on &s;sexuality&s; in the context of the dynamics of Karen positioning in the hills of Thailand. It discusses how ‘sexuality’ is embedded in varied other discursive contexts. Far from being prim and humourless hill people, life and conversation in a Thai Karen village is rich with sexual banter and connotations. What is interpreted by Westerners as codes of morality and sexuality is embedded in the co…
Introduction to Part II
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the part two of this book. The part focuses on social life in the Karen communities, especially on aspects related to the marital bond. It discusses teenage culture among Pwo Karen youths, beginning from the pre-marital courtship, emphasizing romance, the joys and anxieties of adolescence. Of all the courtship occasions, funeral singing is depicted as the most exciting for Ka…
Negotiating Ethnic Representation between Self and Other: The Case of Karen and Eco-tourism in Thailand
Connecting House to House: Social Practices of Karen Swidden Farmers in Bago Yomas
During the period of British administration, certain areas in the Bago mountains were designated as Karen Reserve Forest.Today, the same area is still reserved for Sgaw Karen farmers who cultivate swidden fields.This paper starts by briefly examining the historical continuity of forest administration of this region from colonial times to the present, including the period of post-independence internal conflict which deeply affected the area.The pu…
Methamphetamine use and correlates in two villages of the highland ethnic Karen minority in northern Thailand: A cross sectional study
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of methamphetamine use and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence are high in lowland Thai society. Despite increasing social and cultural mixing among residents of highland and lowland Thai societies, however, little is known about methamphetamine use among ethnic minority villagers in the highlands. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey examined Karen villagers from a developed and a less-developed village on Februa…
Morality, sexuality and mobility: Changing moral discourse and self
Introduction to Part II
Pagodas and Prophets: Contesting Sacred Space and Power among Buddhist Karen in Karen State
This paper analyzes multi-layered religious practices among local Buddhist Karen on the plains of Karen State in Burma, within the context of the larger socio-political dynamics of Burmese Buddhism. The purpose is threefold: first, to give ethnographic details of the hybrid nature of religious practices among Buddhist Pwo Karen, thereby demonstrating how sacred space and power are contested, despite the strong hand of the state; second, to challe…
Seeking Haven and Seeking Jobs: Migrant Workers' Networks in Two Thai Locales
Thailand has seen a large increase in migrant workers from Myanmar since the 1990s. A constant flow of migrants arrive to seek refuge from dire circumstances in their homeland and/or to seek better work opportunities. They have adapted to changing state policy regarding their migrant status and work permits as well as to more immediate means of control. Previous works on this subject have tended either toward macro-level policy and economics, or …
Pagoda Construction and Saintly Charisma: Religious Movements in the Thai-Myanmar Border Region
Slow Anthropology: Negotiating Difference with the Iu Mien
Karen Culture of Evangelism and Early Baptist Mission in Nineteenth Century Burma
The success story of nineteenth-century Baptist missionary work among minority ethnic groups in Burma was one well-known facet of the early beginnings of modern Protestant missions. Behind this success was the extensive travel and evangelizing work done by native Karen Christians. In the face of the unexpected speed and zeal with which the Karen converts spread the gospel, to which I apply the term “culture of evangelism”, the Baptist mission in …
Between State and Family: Biopolitics of Elderly Care and a Case of Emerging Communality in Northern Thailand
In Thailand, from the beginning of this century, policies on aging, health promotion reform toward enlightening the public, and administrative decentralization have been taking place, leading to the reinforcement of biopolitics in elderly care. “Community” became a useful locus and tool to carry out governance of health and elderly care. At the same time, within state-initiated programs there is local agency at work, which mobilizes existing soci…
Labour of Devotion: Material Construction and Charisma of Saintly Monks in the Myanmar–Thai Border Region
The Myanmar–Thai border area has been the stage for charismatic monks revered by the populace following three religious traditions: the northern Thai tradition of khruba worship, Myanmar Buddhism in the peripheries, and Karen history of seeking variable millenarian leaders. Their practices are characterised by the construction of large Buddhist structures; the formation of a community of devotees; ascetic and/or moral practices; and a diversity o…
Niikura Hisano. The Vulnerabilities of Aging Thai Women in Japan: Transnational Social Spaces and Embedded Gender Norms . Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2024, 252p
Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · History (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works)