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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Scholarship on the integration of Siam's northern periphery has largely overlooked the role of sacred space in the transition to modernity. While Lanna had been politically and economically integrated into modern Siam, sacred space remained a contested point of articulation between local elites and Bangkok officials long into the twentieth century. Khruba Sriwichai's movement to restore sacred spaces throughout the region shows not only how resistance to Siam continued well after the political-economic integration of the region, but also how this resistance drew on the legacy of sacro-spatial legitimacy, once a crucial part of the pre-modern Chiang Mai state.
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