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Traditional Societal Organization in Thailand and Burma: Comments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

Lorraine Gesick
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My comments on the four papers here are not in any way a unified essay, but rather are some reflections as well as questions I was inspired to ask by reading the papers. The papers fall together into two pairs of related essays, one pair, comprising the papers by Lehman and Aung-Thwin, being largely concerned with “bonded” relationships in the general context of traditional societal organization in Burma and Thailand, and the other pair of papers, by Wyatt and Kirsch, focusing on a particular early northern Thai law code, the so-called “Laws of King Mangrai”, and what it suggests about the society in which and for which it was written.

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Symposium on Societal Organization in Mainland Southeast Asia Prior to the Eighteenth Century
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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , September 1984 , pp. 266 - 270
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1984

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1 It is easy to become confused on this point because officials appointed by the king or other cawnãi as foremen or headmen over then phrai were also called nãi.