Patrons of the Siam Society
Patron His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej
Vice-Patrons Her Majesty Queen Sirikit His Royal Highness Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarinda
Honorary President Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarinda
Honorary Vice-Presidents Her Majesty Ashi Kesang Choeden Wangchuck, Queen Mother of Bhutan His Imperial Highness Prince Akishino of Japan Mom Kobkaew Abhakara na Ayudhya
Council of the Siam Society, 2006 - 2008
President Mr Athueck Asvanund
Vice-Presidents Thanphuying Putrie Viravaidya Mrs Bilaibhan Sampatisiri
Leader, Natural History Section Dr Weerachai Nanakorn
Honorary Secretary Mr Barent Springsted Honorary Treasurer Mr Suraya Supanwanich Honorary Librarian Ms Anne Sutherland Honorary Editor, JSS Dr Dhiravat na Pombejra Honorary Editor, NHB Dr Weerachai Nanakorn
Members of Council Mrs Eileen Deeley Mr James P Rooney Mr Paul Russell Mr Smitthi Siribhadra Mrs Susan M Sutton Prof. Dr Karl E Weber Mr Paravi Wongchirachai Cover : Head of Silenus on the lid of the Pong Tuk lamp (National Museum, Bangkok) This volume is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarinda Vice-Patron and Honorary President of the Siam Society 1985 – 2008 The Journal of the Siam Society
Volume 96 2008 Editorial Board Tej Bunnag advisor Chris Baker advisor Dhiravat na Pompejra honorary editor Michael Smithies editor Kanitha Kasina-Ubol coordinator Euayporn Kerdchouay production assistant Mary Eliades proof reader
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Contents
Articles
BRIGITTE BORRELL The early Byzantine lamp from Pong Tuk 1
FRANCIS R. BRADLEY Piracy, Smuggling, and Trade in the Rise of Patani, 1490-1600 27
KENNON BREAZEALE Bishop Barthélemy Bruguière, 1792-1835 51
BARTHÉLEMY BRUGUIÈRE Description of Siam in 1829 Translated and edited by Kennon Breazeale and Michael Smithies 73
BRENDAN AND SUTHIDA WHYTE The Inscriptions on the First World War Volunteers Memorial, Bangkok 175
DONALD M. STADTNER The Mon of Lower Burma 193
ANTHONY WALKER Karen and Lahu: ethnic affiliation or Baptists’ imagination? 217
From the archives
CHARLES NELSON SPINKS Thai cover bowls of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries 229 (Sawaddi 3/2 Nov-Dec 1964, pp.13-19, 26)
CHRISTOPHER FRYKE Siam in the 1680s: A brief account first published in 1692 241
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Reviews
Roderich Ptak, Die Maritime Seidenstrasse: Künstenräume, Seefahrt und Handel in vorkolonialer Zeit. Munich, C.H. Beck, 2007. Reviewer Karl E. Weber. 243
Ian Harris, ed., Buddhism, Power and Political Order. London and New York , Routledge, 2007. Reviewer Pattana Kitiarsa. 247
Nicol Guérin and Dick van Oenen, Thai Ceramic Art - The Three Religions. Singapore, Sun Tree Publishing, 2005. Reviewer Dick Richards. 250
Bhawan Ruangsilp, Dutch East India Company Merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya: Dutch Perceptions of the Thai Kingdom, c.1604-1765. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2007. Reviewer Han ten Brummelhuis. 253
Gijsbert Heeck, ed. Barend Jan Terwiel, A Traveler in Siam in the Year 1655. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 2008. Reviewer Bhawan Ruangsilp. 257
Anthony Farrington and Dhiravat na Pombejra, The English Factory in Siam 1612-1685. London, The British Library, 2007, 2 vols. Reviewer Chris Baker. 259
Anthony Farrington, ed., Low’s Mission to Southern Siam, 1824. Bangkok, White Lotus, 2007. Reviewer Michael Smithies. 263
Tamara Loos, Subject Siam: Family, Law and Colonial Modernity in Thailand. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 2006. Reviewer Haydon Cherry. 265
Han ten Brummelhuis, King of the Waters: Homan van der Heide and the origin of modern irrigation in Siam. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books/ISEAS, Singapore, 2007. Reviewer James C. Ingram. 270
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Luigi Bressan and Michael Smithies, Thai-Vatican Relations in the Twentieth Century. Bangkok, Apostolic Nunciature, 2006. Reviewer Fr Sigmund Laschenski. 273
Thak Chaloemtiarana, Thailand: The Politics of Despotic Paternalism. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 2007. Reviewer Andrew Turton. 276
Pasuk Pongpaichit and Chris Baker, eds., Thai Capital after the 1997 Crisis. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 2008. Reviewer Malcolm Falkus. 280
Rory Mackenzie, New Buddhist Movements in Thailand: Towards an Understanding of Wat Phra Dhammakaya and Santi Asoke. London and New York, Routledge, 2007. Reviewer Peter Jackson. 283
Duncan McCargo, ed., Rethinking Thailand’s Southern Violence. Singapore, National University of Singapore Press, 2007. Reviewer Patrick Jory. 285
Maurizio Pelegggi, Thailand: the Worldly Kingdom. Singapore, Talisman Publishing, 2007. Reviewer Pattana Kitiarsa. 288
Don McCaskill, Prasit Leepreecha, and He Shaoying, eds., Living in a Global- ized World: Ethnic Minorities in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Chiang Mai, Mekong Press, 2008. Reviewer Hjorleifur Jonsson. 291
Nancy Eberhardt, Imagining the Course of Life: Self-transformation in a Shan Buddhist community. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 2007. Reviewer Pinkaew Laungaramsri. 295
Vatthana Polsena and Ruth Banomyong, Laos, from Buffer State to Crossroads? trans. Michael Smithies. Chiang Mai, Mekong Press, 2006. Reviewer Martin Stuart-Fox. 297
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Michel Jacq-Hergoualc’h, The Armies of Angkor: Military Structure and Weaponry of the Khmers, trans. Michael Smithies. Bangkok, Orchid Press, 2007. Reviewer Milton Osborne. 302
Joyce Clark, ed., Bayon: New Perspectives. Bangkok, River Books, 2007. Reviewer Bruno Dagens. 304
Olivier Cunin and Baku Saito, The Face Towers of Banteay Chmar. Tokyo, Goto Shoin Publishing, 2005. Reviewer Jane Puranananda. 310
Zhou Daguan, A Record of Cambodia, trans. Peter Harris, foreword by D. Chandler. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 2007. Reviewer Milton Osborne. 312
Okna Veang Thiounn, Voyage du Roi Sisowath en France, trans. Olivier de Bernon. Paris, Mercure de France, 2006. Reviewer David Chandler. 315
Christoforo Borri and Samuel Barron, Views of Seventeenth Century Vietnam, ed., Olga Dror and K.W. Taylor. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2006. Reviewer George Dutton. 317
Virginia Morris, with Clive Hills, A History of the Ho Chi Minh Trail: The Road to Freedom. Bangkok, Orchid Press, 2006. Reviewer Sud Chonchirdsin. 320
Elizabeth Moore, Early Landscapes of Myanmar. Bangkok, River Books, 2007. Reviewer Donald Stadtner. 324
Wil O. Dijk, Seventeenth Century Burma and the Dutch East India Company 1634-1680. Singapore, Singapore University Press, 2006. Reviewer Bhawan Ruangsilp. 326
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Ma Ma Lay, Not Out of Hate. trans. Margaret Aung-Thwin. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 2006. Reviewer Emma Larkin. 329
F. Douaire-Marsaudon, B. Sellato, and C. Zheng, eds., Dynamiques identitaires en Asie et dans le Pacifique. Aix, University of Provence, 2006, 2 vols. Reviewer Karl E. Weber. 332
Noorhaidi Hasan, Laskar Jihad. Islam, Militancy, and the Quest for Identity in Post-New Order Indonesia. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2006. Reviewer Karl E. Weber. 337
Books received for review 343
Obituaries
HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana 344
James di Crocco 346
Notes about contributors 347
Notes for contributors 353
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