Rain Thai Vol.8/2015

Akha Souvenir Sellers in Thailand’s Urban Tourist Areaas: Social, Economic, and Political Structures
(Author : Alexander Trupp)
Thai 16mm Cinema: The Rise of a Popular Cinematic Culture in Thailand from 1945 to 1970
(Author : Aliosha Herrera)
The Map that Christmas Carols Made: A Case of Musical Appropriation and Application in a Karen Village
(Author : Benjamin Fairfield)
“Snakes Without Poison?” : (Re)Negotiating Hybrid Masculinities in Thailand
(Author : Daniel Whitehouse)
Education Environments of Children with Disabilities in Greater Bangkok: Barriers and Facilitators in a Transiting Urban Area Selected Findings from a Cross-Cultural Perspective on Society and Culture
(Author : Michelle Proyer)
The Chinese Vegetarian Festival in Bangkok’s Chinatown: A Space for Presenting Cultural Identity of Chineseness in Contemporary Thai Soceity
(Author : Narut Kupthanaroj)
Dharma on the Rise: Lay Buddhist Associations and the Traffic in Meditation in Contemporary Thailand
(Author : Prakirati Satasut)
Japan’s Cultural Diplomacy: Influence on Thai Society
(Author : Saikaew Thipakorn)
The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara in Thai-Malay Peninsula and Western Indonesia: The Early Development of Buddhist Imagery in Insular Southeast Asia
(Author : Sofia Sundstrom)
Phra Upakhut Midnight Almsgiving Ritual: The Reproduction of a Northern Thai Ritual in Central Thailand
(Author : Watcharaporn Distapan)

Suchitra Chongstitvatana, Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Editor-in-Chief
Peter Skilling, Ecole fracaise d’Extreme-Orient, Bangkok
Justin McDaniel, Assoc Prof, University of Pennsylvania