Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos

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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Embodied Memories in Cultural Crisis: Spirit Possession and Ritual
The Person in Transformation: Body, Mind and Cultural Appropriation	p. 43
Crises of the Modern in Northern Thailand: Ritual, Tradition, and the New Value of Pastness	p. 68
Hmong Confucian Ethics and Constructions of the Past	p. 95
Nationalist Monuments: Competing Social Memories
National Heroine or Local Spirit? The Struggle over Memory in the Case of Thao Suranari of Nakhon Ratchasima	p. 113
Monuments and Memory: Phaya Sihanatraja and the Founding of Maehongson	p. 137
Immobile Memories: Statues in Thailand and Laos	p. 154
Commoditisation and Consumer Identities
Exhibition of Power: Factory Women's Use of the Housewarming Ceremony in a Northern Thai Village	p. 185
The Postmodernisation of Thainess	p. 202
Remembering, Social Memory, and History
Social Memory as it Emerges: A Consideration of the Death of a Young Convert of the West Coast in Southern Thailand	p. 231
Remembering/Silencing the Traumatic Past: The Ambivalent Memories of the October 1976 Massacre in Bangkok	p. 243
Reflections
Social Memory Reconsidered	p. 287
Index	p. 300
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