Village Life in Modern Thailand

Village Life in Modern Thailand by John E. deYoung provides a vivid descriptive account of Thai rural society beyond the Bangkok delta plain, covering the north, northeast, and much of the central and southern regions. Based on nearly three years of first-hand fieldwork, including an intensive social study of a northern village, deYoung reconstructs the daily activities, economic patterns, and family life of peasants who still live in compact village units and practice a largely self-suffic...