Siam Mapped A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation

Name: Siam Mapped A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation
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ISBN: 9780824819743

ISBN-10: 0824819748

ISBN-13: 9780824819743

Edition: 1997 (Reprint)

Authors: Thongchai Winichakul

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Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 6/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Thai Language Conventions	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: The Presence of Nationhood
The Two-Way Identification of Nationhood	p. 1
The Positive and Negative Identification of Thainess	p. 3
Thai Studies	p. 6
Struggles for Interpretation	p. 9
Siam as a Cultural Construct	p. 12
Subject and Method	p. 16
Indigenous Space and Ancient Maps
Sacred Topographies	p. 20
Imaginary Spatial Depiction: Ancient Maps	p. 24
The Coexistence of Different Concepts of Space	p. 33
The Coming of a New Geography
Two Earths, Same Space: The Advent of Modern Earth	p. 37
Breakthrough: Astronomy via Astrology	p. 42
Space in a New Mode: Modern Geography	p. 47
Space Encoded: The Modern Map	p. 51
Modality: Ambiguity and Displacement	p. 56
Boundary
Western Boundary on the Western Frontier	p. 62
Clashes of Conceptions of Boundary	p. 68
The Nonbounded Kingdom	p. 74
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