New Mosaics on Old Walls

Intimacy and Architecture along the Malaysian-Thai Frontier

Bibliographic Data

ID2979285
AuthorsIrving Johnson (corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume83
Issue2
Pages239-277
Publication date2010-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/anq.0.0122
OpenAlexW2006639000
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

The Thais of Kelantan, Malaysia are a small community living along an international border. Politically Malaysian, the Buddhist community has for a long time come under the cultural sway of neighboring Thailand. In this paper, I discuss how Michael Herzfeld's (1997) notion of cultural intimacy is a useful tool in discussing how religious architecture forms an important marker of personhood for Kelantanese Thai villagers. I elaborate upon Herzfeld's original thesis by seeking out cultural intimacy not in the gaps of national embarrassments but in the important and powerful feelings of belonging along the peripheries of two nation-states

Archaeology · Buddhism · Feeling · Frontier · Geography · Personhood · Political science · Sociology · Thais · Architecture · Asian Studies and History · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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