This book is published to mark the 80th birthday, in December 2007, of Thailands monarch, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Rama IX. This stunning pictorial volume showcases the work of 55 international and Thai photographers, all of whom have captured every aspect of Thai life, commerce, industrial development and culture at this moment in its history, to create a unique photographic record…
Communist revolutions in this century have suppressed existing ritual and symbolic structures and invented new ones. Armed with new flags, new national celebrations, or new school textbooks, they have attempted to reconstruct social memory. This fascinating work of political anthropology examines the case of Laos from the heady days of the 1975 revolution to the more sober "post-socialist" pres…