This thesis examines the meanings and representations of middle-class teenagers' lives in Bangkok from the 1960s to 1980s. It analyses photographs of high school and university students. The photographs investigated here are primarily drawn from... their photographs to make sense of their lives in four connected themes: the meanings of adolescence, teenage creativity in yearbooks, teenage idealists, and friendship. This thesis asks: How did adolescents use photographs to reflect on the relationships among

Daijōsai（大嘗祭）is a ritual of the Yamato court held once every reign after the enthronement. The researcher was interested in the changes of the Daijōsai through history in terms of the ritual’s composition, and its meanings in relation... to the transformation from an ancient ritual to show gratitude to the deities into a ritual with political purpose in the Asuka and Meiji periods. Nowadays, the original meaning of the Daijōsai has been restored as a ritual showing gratitude to the deities.

in the discursive field of differentiation between the “good woman” and the “bad woman” during the colonial era. Its meanings were shaped with reference to the family as a basic unit of the nation,Buddhism as one of the pillars of Thainess, and science as a

of the globalization approach. The idea is that a cross-nation economy trend determines cultural ways. This means that the consumers are no longer passive subjects affected by globalization or Japanization. Several groups of people in Thailand have taken

. Moreover, the Siam archival documents show that, after the annexation of Lanna, Khum Luang and Wiang Khaew were rebuilt into places with positive meaning-such as, town hall and school and negative meaning-such as, a prison. Rebuilding the palace into a... prison means a degradation of a palace. Furthermore, it also shows the influence of Siamese government in Bangkok over the colonized Lanna, since the Siamese government could do what it saw fit.

This research article studies ascetics in Early India or in Vedic Era. It aims to explore the meaning, characteristic and status of ascetics by the names they were called which are found in Ṛgveda and in Buddhists' Pāli canon, and through

the studied era show that, as Liquor, Soda drink and lemonade were imported to Thailand, they were promoted as an identity builder for “modern people”. That means, the consumers should be modern and healthy. This matchs the view of Thai

The thesis proposes a biocultural interpretation of the history of children and childhood during the early Bangkok period to the Chakri Reformation. An analytic framework draws on 3 interweaving meanings of a term “dek” [children/childhood... of people in agrarian communities with intermingled religious traditions of pre-nation state Thailand. Chapter 4 studies how “dek,” particularly in a philosophical and socialrelational meaning, played roles during the early years of the reign of King

, these emotions that people mentioned are both the process of socialization from an elite and the resistance of the middle class. In a meanwhile, a new emotional regime is as slightly likely to generate its own definition and meaning as the others.

This article aims to study Sadet Praphatton, a personal account of a recreational journey during the reign of King Chulalongkorn. The analysis focuses on the cultural meaning of certain recreational activities. Siamese elites adopted Western