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Author | : Tamara Loos |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501728253 |
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Unlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by imperial nations while domestically its leaders pursued European colonial strategies of juridical control in the Muslim south. The creation of family law and courts in that region and in Siam proper most clearly manifests Siam's dualistic position. 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. In Siam, Loos finds, the language of modernity was not associated with a foreign, colonial overlord, so it could be deployed both by elites who favored continuation of existing domestic hierarchies and by those advocating political and social change.
Author | : Great Britain. Foreign Office |
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Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1872 |
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Download Reports from Her Majesty's Embassies and Missions Abroad on the Subject of Consular Conventions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : United States. Department of State |
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Total Pages | : 826 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : United States |
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Total Pages | : 860 |
Release | : 1895 |
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Total Pages | : 838 |
Release | : 1894 |
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Download Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Samuel John Smith |
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Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Thailand |
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Download The Siam Repository Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Arnold Wright |
Publisher | : London : Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Malaya |
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Download Twentieth Century Impressions of Siam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Nathabanja (Luang.) |
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Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Aliens |
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Download Extra-territoriality in Siam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 1266 |
Release | : 1889 |
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Download The Directory & Chronicle of China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Malaya, Borneo, Siam, the Philippines, Korea, Indo-China, Netherlands Indies, Etc Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Samson Lim |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2016-02-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824855280 |
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Visual evidence is the sine qua non of the modern criminal process—from photographs and video to fingerprints and maps. Siam's New Detectives offers an analytical history of these visual tools as employed by the Thai police when investigating crime. Covering the period between the late nineteenth century and the end of the Cold War, the book provides both an extended overview of the development and evolution of modern police practices in Thailand, and a window into the role of the Thai police within a larger cultural system of knowledge production about crime, violence, and history. Based on a diverse set of primary sources—police reports, detective training manuals, trial records, newspaper stories, memoirs, archival documents, and hard-to-find crime fiction—the book makes two related arguments. First, the factuality of the visual evidence used in the criminal justice system stems as much from formal conventions—proper lighting in a crime scene photo, standardized markings on maps—as from the reality of what is being represented. Second, some images, once created, function as tools, helping the police produce truths about the criminal past. This generative power makes images such as crime scene maps useful as investigative aids but also means that scholars cannot analyze them simply in terms of mimetic accuracy or interpret them in isolation for deeper meaning. Understanding how modern legal systems operate requires an examination of the visual culture of the law, particularly the aesthetic rules that govern the generation and use of documentary evidence. By examining modern policing in terms of visual culture, Siam's New Detectives makes important methodological contributions. The book shows how a historical analysis of form can supplement the way many scholars have traditionally approached visual sources, as symbols requiring a close reading. By acknowledging the productive nature of images in addition to their symbolic functions, the book makes clear that policing is fundamentally an interactive, creative endeavor as much as a disciplinary one.