268th INTG Meeting – A talk by Olivier Evrard Acculturation and Perpetuation of Ethnic Boundaries in Northern Thailand and Laos About the Speaker Olivier Evrard is an anthropologist at IRD (Institut de Recherché pour le Developpement, previously called Orstom) and is currently collaborating with the Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University. He has been doing … Read more
264th INTG Meeting – A Talk by David Palmer and Elijah Siegler Introduction: Tao Garden (by Elijah Siegler) 30 minutes outside Chiang Mai, near the village of Doi Saket, is a health spa called Tao Garden. It offers massage, herbal treatments. Also classes for Daoist practices: six healing sounds, microcosmic orbit, “Taoist yoga,” etc. Many … Read more
A Detective Story: Is This Image the Original? Two Others Claim the Title. 260th INTG Meeting – A talk and slide presentation by Carol Stratton About the Speaker Carol Stratton has been working on the art history of Thailand for over thirty years. She and her family lived in Bangkok for six years during the … Read more
254th INTG Meeting – A talk and presentation by Michael Vickery What was Champa? Champa no longer exists as a separate entity. There was an officially recognized Champa (recognized at the time by China, Vietnam and Cambodia) under that name along parts of the coast of what is now central and southern Vietnam from at least the 7th century … Read more
251st INTG Meeting – A talk by Niels Mulder Summary of Niels Mulder’s Talk In the last days of the year 2000, when I finished writing ‘Southeast Asian Images – Towards civil society?’ (Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 2003), I knew it would be my last work based on field research. That being the sign of … Read more
249th INTG Meeting – A talk by Gary Sue Merritt Suwannarat Gary Suwannarat writes – Here’s a little bit of my background regarding American politics. I have been a member of Democrats Abroad-Thailand for something like 15 years, served as the Vice-Chair in 1996, and then found myself Chair as the elected Chair moved to Great Britain. Between the … Read more
An Encountering with Burmese Spirit Possession 244th INTG Meeting – A talk by Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière, CNRS-LASEM We were at Padeima, that is to say somewhere in between Shweguni and Monywa, sitting on the Irrawady River’s sandy bank, in the light of the moon, and listening to the stories of KSM, a spirit-medium, … Read more
242nd INTG Meeting – A talk by Dr. Don Swearer Martyrdom set within the broader context of persecution has been a defining feature of the history of the expansion of Christianity worldwide, including Thailand. The seminal martyrdom story in the annals of the Protestant (Presbyterian) church is northern Thailand is the death of two Thai Christian men, Nan … Read more
