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Tag Archives: Northern Thai culture
Fanciful temple murals: Folk Art in northern Thailand
Whenever I’m in northern Thailand, I always drop everything I was planning to do when my dear friend, Vithi, rings up and asks me to join him on an excursion because it’s usually an interesting adventure, lots of fun (in … Continue reading
Posted in BUDDHISM, Lampang, Photography, Temples, THAILAND, TRAVEL
Tagged Buddhist temple murals, Buddhist temple paintings, Northern Thai culture, Vithi Phanichphant, Wat Baan Koh
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Trance dancing and spirit possession in Northern Thailand
Like most anthropologists, I enjoy rituals. I find them intriguing, fascinating, culturally interesting and lots of fun. Every year in the village where I practiced fieldwork in rural northern Thailand, in the season between the cold and the hot, an … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, THAILAND
Tagged ancestor spirits, ancestral spirits, Lampang, Northern Thai ancestral spirits, Northern Thai anthropology, Northern Thai culture, Northern Thai rituals, Northern Thailand, spirit medium, spirit possession, trance
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