Thailand

November 12, 2024 — November 12, 2024

place

I lived in Thailand for a year, from 2005 to 2006. I should have a page to honour that, because Thailand is an amazing and wonderful place, and Thai culture is both fascinating and IMO under-regarded, not to mention the incredible art and music scenes, and I hope one day, the scientific community.

I was a blogger at the time, but on a platform lost to history called possumpalace.org from which little survived, so my notes are mostly gone.

Figure 1

1 History

Thailand was never conquered in the colonial period, which is no mean thing.

2 Puppetry

TBD

3 Queerness in Thailand

Also extremely interesting and TBD.

4 Meditation tradition

See meditation.

There is a very interesting history of the meditation revival in Thailand, which I know about mostly via หอจดหมายเหตุพุทธทาส อินทปัญโญ - สวน โมกข์ กรุงเทพ.

5 References

Oyserman, Coon, and Kemmelmeier. 2002. “Rethinking Individualism and Collectivism: Evaluation of Theoretical Assumptions and Meta-Analyses.” Psychological Bulletin.
Talhelm, and Oishi. 2018. “How Rice Farming Shaped Culture in Southern China.” In Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology: Social, Ecological, and Cultural Perspectives.