Childbirth and Tradition in Northeast Thailand: Forty Years of Development and Cultural Change Pirate ”—Donald K

”—Donald K

Thammasat University

offering easy recipes for home remedies

published in what was then Malaya after the Second World War

as village guardians and personal protecting spirits

Childbirth and Tradition in Northeast Thailand: Forty Years of Development and Cultural Change Pirate ”—Donald KAnders Poulsen 2007, 284 (xvii + 267) pp. 22x21 cm 83 photographs, 3 maps, 21 tables Anders Poulsen's term as a UNESCO expert ended in 1962, but he has returned to the same area of Northeast Thailand many times since, most recently in 2005. As such, this beautifully illustrated volume offers a rare study of IsaanThai customs and belief associated with pregnancy and birth and how they have changed over almost half a century. Using a psychological and