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Charles Keyes (PhD 1967, Cornell)

Research Interests:
Interpretive anthropology, religion and political-economic change, ethnic group relations, sociology of Theravada Buddhism; Southeast Asia, especially Thailand & Vietnam

Selected Publications:

2002

Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos. (ed. with Shigeharu Tanabe) Richmond, Surrey, UK: Routledge Curzon.

2002

"'The Peoples of Asia': Science and Politics in Ethnic Classification in Thailand, China and Vietnam." Journal of Asian Studies 61(4):1163-1203.

1995

The Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia. New York: Macmillan (1977). Reprinted, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press (1995).

1994

Asian Visions of Authority: Religion and the Modern States of East and Southeast Asia. (ed. with Laurel Kendall and Helen Hardacre). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

1989

Thailand: Buddhist Kingdom as Modern Nation-State. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press (1987). Bangkok: DK Publishers (1989).


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