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COUNCIL OF THE SIAM SOCIETY 1979/80
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Contents of Volume 68 Part 1 January 1980
Articles
PHRA KHRU Funerary rites and the Buddhist meaning of ANUSARANASASANAKIARTI death : an interpretative text from northern CHARLES F. KEYES Thailand
SUMITR PITIPHAT The religion and beliefs of the Black Tai, and a note on the study of cultural origins 29
PIRIY A KRAIRIKSH An early Khmer sculpture from southern Laos 39
H. G. QUARITCH WALES Re.cent Dvaravati discoveries, and some Khmer comparisons 43
RAYMOND SCUPIN Islam in Thailand before the Bangkok period 55
JOHN F. HARTMANN A model for the alignment of dialects in Southwestern Tai 72
H. E. KAUFFMANN Some social and religious institutions of the Lawii (northwestern Thailand) : Part III 87
Notes
MICHAEL VICKERY King Mangrai and the Le-shih 126
HANS PENTH The orthography of the toponym "Lan Na" 128 H. TIN Thai words in the Burmese language 129
Review Articles
JOHN FUNSTON Political change in Thailand, 1973-1976. (Reflections on the Collapse of Democracy in Thailand, by R.F. Zimmermann; and Thailand: Domino by Default? by W. Bradley et al.) 131
ROGER KERSHAW Frontiers within frontiers: the persistence of Thai ethnicity in Kelantan, Malaysia (Brokers of Morality: Thai Ethnic Adaptation in a Rural Malaysian Setting, by Louis Golomb) 145 M.C. SUBHADRADIS 0ISKUL Das Helige Bildnis: Skulpturen aus Thailand/The Sacred Image: Sculptures from Thailand, by Piriya Krairiksh 159