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Sustainable Tourism Paradigm In Lao Pdr (1986-2004 Ad), Boonyasarit Aneksuk
Sustainable Tourism Paradigm In Lao Pdr (1986-2004 Ad), Boonyasarit Aneksuk
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
Since 1986 social and economic reform in Lao PDR has created great change in various aspects. Tourism, which has been accepted only recently in Lao PDR, also plays an important role in the economic development of Lao PDR. As a result, tourism is considered a change in the Lao PDR development paradigm. The article aims to present a sustainable tourism paradigm, which is an aspect of the development paradigm of Lao PDR since the development of tourism management from 1986. In addition, the sustainable tourism paradigm has influenced different levels of tourism concepts, such as at the Theory and Universal …
The Influence Of Initial Consonants On The Intrinsic Pitch Of High And Low Vowels In The Malay Dialect Spoken In Pathumthani Province, Thailand, Phanintra Teeranon
The Influence Of Initial Consonants On The Intrinsic Pitch Of High And Low Vowels In The Malay Dialect Spoken In Pathumthani Province, Thailand, Phanintra Teeranon
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
High vowels tend to have higher intrinsic F0 (pitch) than low vowels (e.g. Lehiste, 1970; Whalen and Levitt, 1995). Higher intrinsic F0 occurs on vowels which follow voiceless consonants, lower intrinsic F0 occurs on vowels which follow voiced consonants. When high vowels follow voiced consonants and low vowels follow voiceless consonants, the voicing of initial consonants has been found to counterbalance the intrinsic F0 value of high and low vowels. In other words, voiced consonants will lower F0 values of high vowels, and voiceless consonants will raise F0 values of low vowels to the extent that the average F0 of …
Understanding Necessity Causally, Puttawit Bunnag
Understanding Necessity Causally, Puttawit Bunnag
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
The paper concerns a central issue of alethic modality. It attempts to provide a criterion of meaning for statements with modal words: 'necessary', 'possibly', 'must', 'can', 'could', etc. By considering the main problems concerning modal logic, logic dealing specifically with modal language, the paper chooses to understand the meanings of modal language by 'possible worlds' semantics, and tries to make it more credible by employing a concept of causality which underline most of our normal modal language. Furthermore, the paper attempts to answer the following questions: Why are formal expositions essential to philosophically understanding problematic modal discourses?; What is the …
Science, Technology And The Supernatural In Contemporary Thai Novels, Pornvipa Watarachanakool
Science, Technology And The Supernatural In Contemporary Thai Novels, Pornvipa Watarachanakool
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
As science and technology gain a high reputation and perform an increasingly dominant role in the present globalized era, old knowledge and wisdom, especially local forms, are fast disappearing. Will this trend necessarily bring about a brighter future for the whole world? Are science and technology trustworthy enough and safe enough for human beings to rely on without the other, dated, form of knowledge? These questions comprise the main interest of this paper, which endeavors to search for ideas, practices, and, also, expectations about the stated issues from Thai contemporary novels, in order to examine whether or not there is …
Teaching Of German In Thailand: Past, Present, And Future, Wanna Saengaramruang
Teaching Of German In Thailand: Past, Present, And Future, Wanna Saengaramruang
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
This paper aims firstly to give an overview of the development of German language teaching in Thailand at both high-school and university levels from the past up to the present time, since German has been taught in Thailand for more than 80 years and its development has not been studied and documented systematically or continuously. The survey and analysis of German teaching in Thailand in this paper deal with history, teaching approaches, curricula, the development of teaching materials, the number of German language teachers, students, and schools, the attitudes of German language teachers, the expectations of and attitudes towards German …
Eating Terms: What The Category Reveals About The Thai Mind, Unchalee Singnoi
Eating Terms: What The Category Reveals About The Thai Mind, Unchalee Singnoi
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
The study surveys eating terms in Thai to find out complexities of the way the Thai people really categorize. It employs devices of a new view that takes more complex categorization as the main way in which we make sense of experience. That is, categories in this study are characterized depending on the bodily nature of the beings doing the categorizing, with imaginative mechanisms such as metaphor, metonymy, and mental imagery, on the one hand, and the theory of prototypes, on the other hand. The findings show that there are a large number of terms (up to 43 words) used …
The Change Of Entertainment Culture In Thai Society: From Sacredness To Popularity, Patarawdee Puchadapirom
The Change Of Entertainment Culture In Thai Society: From Sacredness To Popularity, Patarawdee Puchadapirom
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
Associated with the religious, animistic, and ritual aspects in everyone's lifestyle, entertainment culture has evolved to meet the audience's changing preferences and different social status in each era. Whether for the royal court or the commoners, both forms of entertainment were found complementing each other, resulting in its legacy and creation of a new variety. Economic growth not only conveyed wealth to people but also produced an increase in entertainment has witnessed significant changes from sacredness to publicity, while the theme have been based so much on daily life activities that performing artists could really earn their own livings using …
The Death Penalty, Preecha Changkhwanyuen
The Death Penalty, Preecha Changkhwanyuen
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
The objective of his research is to find out how Thai academics conducting studies on the question of punishment view the issue. The study relies on methods of literature review and brainstorming seminars, divided according to disciplines, and collectively as a general lecture forum. Thai academics participating in the seminar with backgrounds in law, philosophy and religion or political science presented views that were in conjunction with the findings of the research presented culminating in a number of suggestions concerning the necessity and importance of capital punishment as well as its moral and justice aspects. Capital punishment so far has …
The Role Of Chinese Traders On The Growth Of Songkhla, 1775-1912, Srisuporn Choungsakul
The Role Of Chinese Traders On The Growth Of Songkhla, 1775-1912, Srisuporn Choungsakul
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
The article aims to study the growth of Songkhla between 1775-1912, marked by two periods of change within Songkhla paroper. First, the Na Songhkla family played a major role in the growth of Songkhla between 1775-1896, and its development into an important port city on the gulf coast. Second, between 1896-1912, after the gradual decline of the role and influence of the Na Songkhla family, Chainese traders ascended and took its place, enabling Songkhla to sustain its economic development and took its place, enabling Songkhla to sustain its economic development and dynamism as a port city. The study reveals the …
The Status Of /-W-/: A Perspective From Khamphuan -- A Thai Language Play, Tamjai Awirutthiyothin
The Status Of /-W-/: A Perspective From Khamphuan -- A Thai Language Play, Tamjai Awirutthiyothin
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
This article aims to show how to understand a language phenomenon through the language play of the Thai. The data is based on Tamjai (2003): Mechanisms and Patterns of Reversed Speech in Bangkok Thai, Northern Thai, Northeastern Thai, and Southern Thai, and Southern Thai Dialects. There are 334 utterances used to analyze the status of /-w-/. The Thai speakers of three dialects, Bangkok Thai, Northern Thai, and Southern Thai dialect speakers, interpreted the status of /-w-/ in five different types when reversed the utterances. Firstly, the second phoneme of an initial cluster: /-w-/. Secondly, the single phoneme of an initial …
Unakan: A Combination Of The Images Of Thai Hero And Heroine, Thaneerat Jatuthasri
Unakan: A Combination Of The Images Of Thai Hero And Heroine, Thaneerat Jatuthasri
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
Focusing on Unakan, the heroine in male disguise in Bot lakhon nai reung Inao, this paper aims at studying the roles and significance of her character that reflect the outstanding image of a heroine in Thai literature. In the story, Butsaba, the heroine, is disguised by her divine ancestor, Patarakala, as a young man named Unakan. The study reveals that Unakan possesses the characteristics of both hero and heroine. By portraying the roles as parallel to Inao, the hero of the story, Unakan is a great warrior and a dignified hero who has irresistible charm to women. She also searches …
The Conservation And Management Of The Cultural Heritage Of Thailand: The Drafting Of The Charter, Weeraphan Shinawatra
The Conservation And Management Of The Cultural Heritage Of Thailand: The Drafting Of The Charter, Weeraphan Shinawatra
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
This paper is an attempt to explain problems of cultural heritage conservation and management in Thailand due to the neglect of the State and the weakness of the society in understanding and protecting their cultural heritage especially the "folk culture" against globalization. The paper also points out that the impending Thailand Charter for cultural heritage conversation and management is the key solution to counter-balance today's threats. Non-government organizations should take the lead in drafting the Charter with full public participation. Meanwhile local cultural heritage organizations which are at risk should immediately respond, with all stakeholders involved, before it is too …
Kurt Wais: A Centenary Appraisal, Chetana Nagavajara
Kurt Wais: A Centenary Appraisal, Chetana Nagavajara
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
Kurt Wais (1907-1995) would be 100 years old on 9 January 2007. He was Professor of Romance Philology and Comparative Literature at Tubingen University until his retirement in 1975. His immense erudition spanning several literatures and epochs equipped him well for pioneering work in Comparative Literature, of which he was the leading authority in Germany. Drawing on his "Nachlass" (private papers) now deposited with the renowned German Literature Archive in Marbach/Neckar, the author, a pupil of Kurt Wais, demonstrates how the precocious scholar, who had won international recognition at the age of 31 with his authoritative book on Stephane Mallarme, …
The Defiance Of Patriarchy And The Creation Of A Female Literary Tradition In Contemporary World Popular Fiction, Surapeepan Chatraporn
The Defiance Of Patriarchy And The Creation Of A Female Literary Tradition In Contemporary World Popular Fiction, Surapeepan Chatraporn
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
Laura Esquivel, Mexican, Joanne Harris, British, Fannie Flagg, American, and Isak Dinesen, Danish, are women writers who have written contemporary world popular fiction: Like Water for Chocolate, Chocolate, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, and the short story ?Babette?s Feast?. Out of their desire to reflect their female identity, these women writers of four different nationalities have concertedly rejected the long-running male literary tradition, in which male characters rule and dominate and, in turn, have created a female literary tradition in which their female characters not only assert a solid and secure place in the world but also …
The Female Characters In Oe Kenzaburo's Early Literary Works -- Focusing On Our Age And Sexual Beings, Duentem Krisdathanont
The Female Characters In Oe Kenzaburo's Early Literary Works -- Focusing On Our Age And Sexual Beings, Duentem Krisdathanont
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
Oe Kenzaburo, the 1994 Nobel Prize winner, is one of the most talented authors of the contemporary literary world. However, he has been criticized for lacking an interest in portraying female characters clearly especially in his early years of writing. Considering himself to be a member of the postwar generation, Oe wrote Our Age and Sexual Beings in 1959 and 1963 to illustrate two types of human beings in his generation, the political being (seiji teki ningen) and the sexual being (seiji teiki ningen) . While the political being is an active hero who opposes others, refusing to conform to …
The Validity Of The Rasa Literary Concept: An Approach To The Didactic Tale Of Phra Chaisuriya, Kusuma Raksamani
The Validity Of The Rasa Literary Concept: An Approach To The Didactic Tale Of Phra Chaisuriya, Kusuma Raksamani
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
The rasa (emotive aesthetics), one of the major theories of Sanskrit literary criticism, has been expounded and evaluated in many scholarly studies by Indian and other Sanskritists. Some of them maintain that since the rasa deals with the universalized human emotions, it has validity not only for Indian but for other literatures as well. The rasa can be applied to any kind of emotive poetry such as lyric, epic, drama and satire. However, in Thai literature an emotive definition of poetry encompasses a great variety of works. A question is then raised in this paper about whether the rasa can …
Aesthetics Of Khlong In Thai Poetry: Convention And Creativity, Weerawat Intaraporn
Aesthetics Of Khlong In Thai Poetry: Convention And Creativity, Weerawat Intaraporn
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
This paper aims to illustrate the beauty of khlong (Thai poetry) creatively written and transmitted from the past to the present through a study of the preservation and creation of aesthetics in relation to euphony, and diction, as well as the imitation of words used by previous poets with new meaning in Thai poetry. From the study, it is found that Thai poets of each era have both followed and adapted the traditional style of composition. In terms of euphony, poets from the past to the present put an emphasis on tones at the end of each line, play on …
Comparative Literature: Recent Debates On An Imagined Discipline, Suradech Chotiudompant
Comparative Literature: Recent Debates On An Imagined Discipline, Suradech Chotiudompant
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
Comparative literature is always a problematic discipline. Scholars from different countries and times such as Rene Wellek, Charles Bernheimer, Susan Bassnett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Djelal Kadir, have attempted to delimit its scope. The variety of definitions have led to ensuing problems of shifting methodologies and frameworks. If, in the early twentieth century, a scholar tended to interrogate and theorise how one distinguished comparative literature, world literature, and general literature from one another, towards the end of that century and potentially continuing well into the new millennium, the parameters surrounding disciplinary formation have significantly changed, leading to a shift in …
The Patterns Of Social Interaction And Integrative Mechanisms In Communities In The Northern Bangkok Extended Metropolitan Region, Daranee Thavinpipathkul, Luksanawadee Tanamee
The Patterns Of Social Interaction And Integrative Mechanisms In Communities In The Northern Bangkok Extended Metropolitan Region, Daranee Thavinpipathkul, Luksanawadee Tanamee
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
Social interaction refers to the communication among people within one particular area. This act can be recognized and done through simple talk or even through equipment that is commonly used these days, such as televisions, radios, telephones, and all kinds of transportation. Activities also help people to know and become a part of community, by working and being involved in the same things, such as traditional community festivals, community development, and so on. These activities should be done continually as part of the system of social interaction. Social integrative mechanism means the existence of those who take part in running …
Toward A Way To Balance Conservation And Development In The Ayutthaya Historic Town Centres, Doosadee Thaitakoo
Toward A Way To Balance Conservation And Development In The Ayutthaya Historic Town Centres, Doosadee Thaitakoo
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
Disagreements about conservation and development in town centres of historic cities may emerge in a society because different interests have diverse wants in city conservation and development. If not reconciled, these can lead to unfavourable effects on historic towns/cities: urban development may threaten their special character and/or conservation restrictions may make town centres unattractive for investment. Observing these difficulties in the Thai historic cities, this research explores how the desire for conservation and development can be balanced in two historic towns in Ayutthaya, a World Heritage site in Thailand. Main points for discussions: 1) Conservation and development in historic town …
The Settlement Landscapes Of The Mangroves: The Indigenous Knowledge On Sustainability And Energy Conservation, Navanath Osiri
The Settlement Landscapes Of The Mangroves: The Indigenous Knowledge On Sustainability And Energy Conservation, Navanath Osiri
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
It has been proved that mangroves provide a great barrier against the impact of natural disaster, especially that of the tsunami in December 2004. Villages located in mangrove areas reported no major damage. It is apparent that, if the villagers live in harmony with nature, the mangroves protect them in return. This paper is the summary of a full research project investigating the settlement landscapes in the mangroves. The analysis concentrates on the relationships between the natural landscape and components of the built environment, such as domestic architecture and outdoor spaces. The study shows that traditional fishing villages are climatically, …
Existence And Succession Of Agricultural Land Around Bangkok, Pijak Hinjiranan, Suwattana Thadaniti, Siriwan Silapacharanan
Existence And Succession Of Agricultural Land Around Bangkok, Pijak Hinjiranan, Suwattana Thadaniti, Siriwan Silapacharanan
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
Covering more than 200,000 rai , agricultural land around Bangkok has been put to various uses for more than 300 years. The types of plants grown there have changed over time, and some planting is close to communities. As a result, points worth studying are how this land still exists, what causes the planting of new plant species to replace existing ones, which species can thrive in a suburban area like this, and which species should be promoted in this area. The study is conducted by means of comparing the location of this area with the theory of locating ideal …
The Conservation Of Cultural Heritage Along Amphawa Canal, Samut Songkhram Province, Wannasilpa Peerapun, Siriwan Silaphacharanan, Vira Sachakul
The Conservation Of Cultural Heritage Along Amphawa Canal, Samut Songkhram Province, Wannasilpa Peerapun, Siriwan Silaphacharanan, Vira Sachakul
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
The Amphawa community houses the birth place of King Rama II. Nowadays this community is still water-based and one can see Thai-styled and row houses, canal-side walkways and ladders leading down to the canal. Against this backdrop are coconut plantations and mixed orchards of pomelo, lychee, etc. Amphawa is also rich in Thai culture featuring mural paintings, traditional dance and music and architecture. Water-based ways of life are very much alive as evidenced by water traffic. The objective of the project is to modify and apply the SAVE and CHIP techniques devised by the Danish Government as part of Cultural …
The Proxemic Study Of Dwelling: A Case Study Of Traditional Thai Houses At Ban Khlong Lamsali, Waricha Wongphyat
The Proxemic Study Of Dwelling: A Case Study Of Traditional Thai Houses At Ban Khlong Lamsali, Waricha Wongphyat
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
"Dwelling", as the heart of our existence, implies the establishment of a meaningful relationship between human and a given environment. In this respect, the private dwelling, the house, is a privileged entity for a phenomenological study of the intimate value of the lived space. Created from the inhabitants' experience accumulated through time, the lived space, or the existential space, not merely reveals the "here of life" of a dwelling place but also reflects the "microcultural pattern' of a society as a whole. Sadly, with the rapid growth of modernization and globalization, such characteristics of the traditional Thai dwelling, or ruan …
Transformations For The Survival Of Traditional Water-Based Communities In Amphawa, Wilawan Phamornsuwan, Wannasilpa Peerapun, Siriwan Silapacharanan
Transformations For The Survival Of Traditional Water-Based Communities In Amphawa, Wilawan Phamornsuwan, Wannasilpa Peerapun, Siriwan Silapacharanan
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
The water-based communities in Amphawa District have evolved in their settlements over a long period of time. They all have specific and unique characteristics in terms of natural and cultural heritages. In the past, the communities have been affected by various transformations and changes not only in the natural environment but also through the direct and indirect developments which have been undertaken in the Mae Klong River basin. Despite these changes, however, the traditional water-based communities have been able to adjust themselves for survival up to the present day. This study aims to describe certain issues which affect the survival …
Book Review Sangaroon 2, Piyalada Thaveeprungsriporn
Book Review Sangaroon 2, Piyalada Thaveeprungsriporn
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
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