CONTENTS

• Prevailing Constraints in the Search for Durable Solutions for Refugees in Displacement along the Thai-Myanmar Border
  Aungkana Kmonpetch
• Suankularb English School: A School for Future Bureaucrats and the Ruling Class, 1883-1897
  Arwut Teeraeak , Villa Vilaithong
• Dāna Dhamma Tradition of the Tai Diaspora in Thailand: The Selection of the Donated Scriptures and the Role of the Tradition
  Chatuporn Petchaboon
• Ethnographic Analogy and the Archaeological Record of Northern Thailand: Insights from Mlabri Hunter – Gatherers and the Tham Lod Rockshelter Archaeofauna Cyler Conrad A Synthesis of the Major Concepts and Characteristics of Thai Buddhist Literature
  Pisit Kobbun
• New Year “Countdown” Chanting Ceremony in Contemporary Thai Society: An Analysis of an Invented Tradition
  Prasirt Runra
• Nora Rong Khru Ritual: Roles of the Ritual in the Context of Ban Plairamai, a Siamese village in Kedah, Malaysia
  Preeyarat Chaowalitprapan
• Examining the Continuity of Chinese Cultural Characteristics of the Thai-Chinese Community in Hat Yai Through the Chinese New Year Festival
  Robert Cummings
• Bunchu Phu Narak and Resistance to Modernity
  Thanayod Lopattananont

Honorary Editors

• Yukio Ikemoto, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
• Hong-koo Kim, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Pusan
• William J. Klausner, Institute of Security and International Studies, Bangkok
• Pranee Kullavanich, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
• Elizabeth Moore, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

Peer Review Committee

• Arthid Sheravanichkul
• Dares Chusri
• Jerrold W. Huguet
• Nontivich Tandavanitj
• Peter Skilling
• Piyorose Tongkerd
• Pornrat Damrhung
• Pram Sounsamut
• Rittirong Jiwaganon
• Sitthiphon Kruarattikan
• Sukanya Bamrungsuk
• Sukanya Patrachai
• Sukanya Sujachaya

Editorial Board

• Suchitra Chongstitvatana, Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University,Editor-in-Chief
• Peter Skilling, École française d’Extrême-Orient, Bangkok
• Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania

Editor

• Suchitra Chongstitvatana