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

by Sulamith Heins Potter

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520040449
• ISBN13: 9780520040441
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.5"