KYOTO ARHA STUDIES ON ASIA KYOTO AREA STUDIES ON ASIA CENTER KOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES, KYOTO UNIVERSITY ChNTER K)R SoUTHI AST ASIAN STUDIES, KYOTO UNIVERSITY VOLUME 4 The Nation and Economic Growth: Korea and Thailand YnsHiHARA Kunio One Mala\ Village: A Thirty-Year Community Study TstlBOUCHl Yoshihiro Commodifying Marxism: The Formation of Modern Thai Radical Gender and Modernity Culture. 1927-1958 Kasian TKJAPIRA Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific Gender and Modernity: Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific HAYAMI Yoko. TANABE Akio. TOKITA-TANABE Yumiko Practical Buddhism among the Thai-Lao: Religion in the Making of a Region Edited by HAYASHI Yukio HAYAMI Yoko TANABE Akio TOKITA-TANABE Yumiko Kyoto University Press This book is published as a part of the results of the Center of Excellence Project entitled "The Making of Regions: Formations, Transformations and New Formations in Asia and Africa." Contents First published in 2003 jointly by: Kyoto University Press Trans Pacific Press Kyodai Kaikan PO Box 120, Rosanna, Melbourne 15-9 Yoshida Kawara-cho Victoria 3084, Australia Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8305, Japan Telephone: +61 3 9459 3021 Fax: +61 3 9457 5923 Telephone: +81-75-761-6182 List of Photographs vii Fax: +81-75-761-6190 Email:
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