1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996440647703316

Autore

Castro-Woodhouse Leslie <1968->

Titolo

Woman between Two Kingdoms : Dara Rasami and the Making of Modern Thailand / / Leslie Castro-Woodhouse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-5017-5552-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Soggetti

HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia

Sex role - Political aspects

Polygyny

Ethnicity

Ethnicity - Thailand - History - 20th century

Ethnicity - Thailand - History - 19th century

Polygyny - Thailand - History - 20th century

Polygyny - Thailand - History - 19th century

Sex role - Political aspects - Thailand - History - 20th century

Sex role - Political aspects - Thailand - History - 19th century

History

Electronic books.

Thailand

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introducing Lan Na, the inland constellation, and Siam -- Dara Rasami's career in the Siamese royal palace -- Performing identity and ethnicity in the Siamese court -- Inventing Lan Na "tradition" and Dara Rasami's legacy -- Intertwined fates: monarchy, women's bodies, and the Thai state.

Sommario/riassunto

"A study of Princess Dara Rasami, one of 153 royal consorts to the king of Thailand, that reveals the central roles played by women in the political dynamics of both the nascent Thai nation and Southeast Asia, shedding light on ethnic difference and gender relations in nineteenth-



and early-twentieth-century Thailand"--