Description |
1 online resource (x, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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JSTOR EBA.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-203) and index. |
Contents |
Family, law, and colonial modernity in Thailand -- Transnational justice -- Colonial law and Buddhist modernity in the Malay Muslim south -- The imperialism of monogamy in family law -- Crisis of wifedom -- Nationalism and male sexuality -- Subjects of history. |
Summary |
"Demonstrating the centrality of gender relations, law, and Siam's Malay Muslims to the history of modern Thailand, Subject Siam examines the structures and social history of jurisprudence to gain insight into Siam's unique position within Southeast Asian history. Tamara Loos elaborates on the processes of modernity through an in-depth study of hundreds of court cases involving polygyny, marriage, divorce, rape, and inheritance adjudicated between the 1850s and 1930s. Most important, this study of Siam offers a novel approach to the question of modernity precisely because Siam was not colonized yet was subject to transnational discourses and symbols of modernity."--Jacket. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Domestic relations -- Thailand -- History -- 20th century.
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Domestic relations. |
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Thailand. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Domestic relations (Islamic law) -- Thailand, Southern -- History -- 20th century.
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Domestic relations (Islamic law) |
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Southern Thailand. |
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Islamic courts -- Thailand, Southern -- History -- 20th century.
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Islamic courts. |
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Law -- Thailand -- History -- 20th century.
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Law. |
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Nationalism -- Thailand -- History -- 20th century.
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Nationalism. |
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Thailand -- History -- 20th century.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Subject |
Law. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Loos, Tamara Lynn. Subject Siam. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006 0801443938 (DLC) 2005018414 (OCoLC)61122977 |
ISBN |
9781501728259 (electronic book) |
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1501728253 (electronic book) |
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0801443938 |
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9780801443930 |
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