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Family Life in a Northern Thai Village: A Study in the Structural Significance of Women

Family Life in a Northern Thai Village: A Study in the Structural Significance of Women

Potter, Sulamith Heins

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0520040449
ISBN13: 9780520040441
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jan 31 1980
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.82 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Potter's 'humanistic narrative' probes family social structure and social organization in Chiangmai, a Northern Thai village .... a solid, informative, and very interesting and alive picture.--Library Journal Gives us a rare inside view of daily life in a northern Thai village . . . The reader gets a feeling of life, pleasure, jealously, anger, pain, and death that is seldom discussed in the anthropological literature.--Asia Rejecting the traditional 'loosely structured' theory of the Thai family, Potter suggests a system that is female--centered with structurally significant consanguineal ties between women rather than men. This alternative not only explains the data presented but offers a new way of looking at comparative kinship. --Intercom The dynamic interplay between the structural dominance of women and the ideological dominance of men is vividly brought out, challenging earlier, and possibly male-biased, perspectives on Northern Thai family structure.--Population and Development Review Potter succeeds in presenting ethnographic material in a lively, humanistically oriented manner. By the time we have encountered three generations of Plenitudes at home in their courtyard . . . we know them as individuals as we as representatives of an exotic culture. . . . Potter presents individual portraits alongside this vivid picture of family and social structure, communal and individual economic activity, political factionalism, and religious observance . . . this book stands as a challenge to cross-cultural psychology.--Contemporary Psychology Dr. Potter's study is highly readable and will be of interest to the general public as well as to scholars.--Asian Student

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