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Buddhism and the spirit cults in North-east Thailand

Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja
  
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PREFACE
  
CONTENTS
  
TABLES
  
ILLUSTRATIONS

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1 INTRODUCTION: THE PARTICULAR AND THE GENERAL
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2 THE STAGE AND ITS SETTING
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3 COSMOLOGY
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4 PRIMARY VILLAGE CONCEPTS
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5 THE INSTITUTION OF MONKHOOD IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
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6 THE RULES OF CONDUCT FOR MONKS, NOVICES, AND LAYMEN
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7 THE PHASES OF MONKHOOD
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8 THE MONASTIC ROUTINE AND ITS REWARDS
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9 THE IDEOLOGY OF MERIT
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10 THE CYCLE OF COLLECTIVE `WAT' RITES AND THE AGRICULTURAL CALENDAR
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`BUN PHRAAWES'
  
Preparations
  
The invitation to Phraa Uppakrut
  
The homage to `thewada' (`Bucha Thewada')
  
Recitation of Mahachad
  
The activities of the fair
  
INTERPRETATION: WHO IS UPPAKRUT?
  
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 10
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11 DEATH, MORTUARY RITES, AND THE PATH TO REBIRTH
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12 LIBERATION THROUGH HEARING: THE SACRED WORDS OF THE MONKS
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13 `SUKHWAN' RITES: THE ELDERS SUMMON THE SPIRIT ESSENCE
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14 THE CO-EXISTENCE OF THE `BRAHMAN' AND THE BUDDHIST MONK
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15 THE CULT OF THE GUARDIAN SPIRITS
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16 MYTH AND RITE: THE `NAGA' SYMBOL AND THE ROCKET FESTIVAL
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17 THE AFFLICTIONS CAUSED BY MALEVOLENT SPIRITS
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18 EXORCISM AS HEALING RITUAL
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19 A KALEIDOSCOPIC VIEW OF THE RELIGIOUS FIELD
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20 THE PARADE OF SUPERNATURALS
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21 THE PAST AND PRESENT IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION: CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY
  
INDEX
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TABLES

           
1 Age distributions of the population of Baan Phraan Muan  page 12 
2 Household composition  13 
3 Birth-place of married couples living in Baan Phraan Muan  15 
4 Ranking of religious acts by seventy-nine family heads  147 
5 Calendar of wat ceremonies and the agricultural cycle  153 
6 Supernatural affliction  266 

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