Whose Place is This? Malay Rubber Producers and Thai Government Officials in Yala (Studies in Contemporary Thailand No. 5)
By Andrew Cornish.
Description
A detailed case study of ethnic conflict in a development scheme in southern Thailand. The book describes the interactions between Malay rubber producers in Yala province and local Thai government officials who sought to establish and promote a co-operative rubber marketing project. Using the results of ethnographic fieldwork carried out near Thailand's southern border, the author outlines the historical background to the region's cultural diversity. After an investigation of the operations of the local bureaucracy, the focus shifts to two Malay communities to show how they partic...
ISBN(s)
9748496708, 9789748496702
