Charles Keyes (PhD 1967, Cornell)
Research Interests:
Ethnic group relations; transformation of peasant society; religion and modernity; sociology of Theravada Buddhism; anthropology and history; Southeast Asia, especially Thailand & Vietnam
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Selected Publications:
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In Press
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From Peasants to Cosmopolitan Villagers: The Roots of Rural populism in Northeastern Thailand, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Press.
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2011
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“The Color of Politics: Thailand’s Deep Crisis of Authority,” in Bangkok May 2010: Perspectives on a Divided Thailand, ed. by Michael J. Montesano, Pavin Chhachavalponpun, and Aekapol Chongvilaivan. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Pp. 168-186.
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2011
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“Buddhists, Human Rights, and Non-Buddhist Minorities” in Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights, ed. by Tom Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 157-190.
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2011
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“Communism, Peasants and Buddhism: The Failure of ‘Peasant Revolutions’ in Thailand in Comparison to Cambodia,” in Community and the Trajectories of Change in Cambodia and Thailand: Anthropological Studies in Honor of May Ebihara, ed. by John Marston. Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute. Pp. 35-58.
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2008/2009
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“Muslim ‘Others’ in Buddhist Thailand,” Thammasat Review (Bangkok), 13: 19-43.
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2007
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(ed.) On the Margins of Asia: Diversity In Asian States – Perspectives on Asia: Sixty Years of the Journal of Asian Studies, Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies.
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2007
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“Monks, Guns and Peace: Theravada Buddhism and Political Violence,” Belief and Bloodshed, edited by James Wellman. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Pp. 147-65.
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2007
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“Ethnicity and the Nation-States of Thailand and Vietnam,” in Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region, Prasit Leepreecha, Don McCaskill, and Kwanchewan Buadaeng, eds. Chiangmai, Thailand: Mekong Press. Pp. 13-54.
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2003
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“The Politics of Language in Thailand and Laos,” in Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia, ed. by Michael E. Brown and Šumit Ganguly. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. 177-210.
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2002
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Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in
Thailand and Laos. (ed. with Shigeharu Tanabe) Richmond, Surrey, UK: Routledge
Curzon.
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2002
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"'The Peoples of Asia': Science and Politics in Ethnic
Classification in Thailand, China and Vietnam." Journal of Asian
Studies 61(4):1163-1203.
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1995
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The Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland
Southeast Asia. New York: Macmillan (1977). Reprinted, Honolulu: University of
Hawaii Press (1995).
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1994
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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.
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