Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand Literary Criticism in the late 1990s many

in the late 1990s many of the Palaung in Thailand found themselves involved in a new conflict over land use in northern Thailand's environmentally degraded highlands

a way to smooth interaction or a sign that one is willing to listen

in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

water supply

mighty rivers and impenetrable forests

Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand Literary Criticism in the late 1990s manyUnlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by imperial nations while domestically its leaders pursued European colonial strategies of juridical control in the Muslim south. The creation of family law and courts in that region and in Siam proper most