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Subject Siam : family, law, and colonial modernity in Thailand /

Loos, Tamara Lynn.

Subject Siam : family, law, and colonial modernity in Thailand / Tamara Loos. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006. - x, 212 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-203) and index.

Family, law, and colonial modernity in Thailand -- Transnational justice -- Colonial law and Buddhist modernity in the Malay Muslim south -- The imperialism of monogamy in family law -- Crisis of wifedom -- Nationalism and male sexuality -- Subjects of history.

9749361962 978974936192

2005018414


Domestic relations (Islamic law)--History--Thailand, Southern--20th century.
Domestic relations--History--Thailand--20th century.
Islamic courts--History--Thailand, Southern--20th century.
Law--History--Thailand--20th century.
Nationalism--History--Thailand--20th century.


Thailand--History--20th century.

KPT540 / .L66 2006

346.59301/5