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Published in University of Hawaii Press eBooks • Jul 31, 2014
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Authors:
Andrew Alan Johnson
Abstract
In Chiang Mai’s neighborhoods, a model of Northern Thai sacred urbanity plays out in miniature: shrines to Buddhist/animist guardian spirits that promise prosperity and peace to their local communities via the idioms of khwam charoen, progress, and barami, charismatic power. These act as a counterwe...
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