Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Publication Title

South East Asia Research

Volume

20

Issue Number

3

First Page

329

Last Page

342

Disciplines

Anthropology

Abstract

The Thai-Lao of North East Thailand (Isan), the major ethnic group in a core area of the Red Shirt movement, have long expressed concern with the well-being of the muang – now nation-state – in which they reside. This paper explores the proposition that the moral foundations for continuing political engagement at the muang level are explicitly stated in the annual Theravada Buddhist festival, the Bun Phra Wet, celebrated in almost every Thai-Lao village. Moreover, these concerns also involve appropriate actions by the people to correct the systems in which they live.

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Copyright © 2012 SOAS. Reproduced by permission of IP Publishing Ltd.

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