Family Life in a Northern Thai Village: A Study in the

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

"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
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"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
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"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."Â
--Intercom
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"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
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"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
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"Dr. Potter's study is highly readable and will be of interest to the general public as well as to scholars."
--Asian Student
Country USA
Brand University of California Press
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
Color White
ReleaseDate 1980-01-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780520040441

Country	USA
Brand	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
Color	White
ReleaseDate	1980-01-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780520040441

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