{"product_id":"family-life-in-a-northern-thai-village-9780520040441","title":"Family Life in a Northern Thai Village","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\"Potter's 'humanistic narrative' probes family social structure and social organization in Chiangmai, a Northern Thai village .... a solid, informative, and very interesting and alive picture.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Gives us a rare inside view of daily life in a northern Thai village . . . The reader gets a feeling of life, pleasure,jealously,anger, pain, and death that is seldom discussed in the anthropological literature.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e--\u003ci\u003eAsia\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Rejecting the traditional 'loosely structured' theory of the Thai family, Potter suggests a system that is female--centered with structurally significant consanguineal ties between women rather than men. This alternative not only explains the data presented but offers a new way of looking at comparative kinship.\" \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e--\u003ci\u003eIntercom\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"The dynamic interplay between the structural dominance of women and the ideological dominance of men is vividly brought out, challenging earlier, and possibly male-biased, perspectives on Northern Thai family structure.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePopulation and Development Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Potter succeeds in presenting ethnographic material in a lively, humanistically oriented manner. By the time we have encountered three generations of Plenitudes at home in their courtyard . . . we know them as individuals as we as representatives of an exotic culture. . . . Potter presents individual portraits alongside this vivid picture of family and social structure, communal and individual economic activity, political factionalism, and religious observance . . . this book stands as a challenge to cross-cultural psychology.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e--\u003ci\u003eContemporary Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Dr. Potter's study is highly readable and will be of interest to the general public as well as to scholars.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e--\u003ci\u003eAsian Student\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sulamith Heins Potter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42960168353910,"sku":"9780520040441","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_33a4d96f-e5a2-4591-a905-badd34f65e8e.jpg?v=1767796226","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/family-life-in-a-northern-thai-village-9780520040441","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}