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What is A Village in the Jungle: Culture and Communication in Thailand about?

This article provides analytical components of Thai culture: worldviews, value systems, symbolic representation, and social organization. The Thai Buddhist worldview and beliefs will be discussed from a historical perspective. Power hidden in the hierarchical structure will be assessed in the realm of interpersonal and mass communication. Thai cultural products will be analyzed in relation to the Thai value system and symbolic representations. How Thais organize their social life will be illuminated by looking at the role and impact of 'face' and 'leadership' in Thai society. There appears to be an almost insulting contradiction between the image of the delicate Land of Smiles, of exquisite manners and 'unique hospitality', and the world of live pussy shows. Yet, to see these images as contradictory is perhaps to misunderstand Thailand. Patpong kitsch and Thai traditions coexist-they are images from different worlds, forms manipulated according to opportunity. The same girl who dances to rock 'n' roll on a bar top, wearing nothing but cowboy boots, seemingly a vision of corrupted innocence, will donate part of her earnings to a Buddhist monk the next morning, to earn religious meri

Author

Patchanee Malikhao; Jan Servaes

Publisher

Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9789811041235

Subjects

Anthropology, Literary Fiction, Science