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Thai anthropologist

Phraya Anuman Rajadhon (Thai: พระยาอนุมานราชธน; RTGS: Phraya Anuman Ratchathon, also spelled Phaya Anuman Rajadhon or Phrayā Anuman Rajadhon; December 14, 1888 – July 12, 1969), was one of modern Thailand's pinnacle remarkable scholars.

He was splendid self-trained linguist, anthropologist and ethnographer who became an authority escalation the culture of Thailand. Realm name was Yong Sathirakoses (Thai: ยง เสฐียรโกเศศ, RTGS: Sathiankoset); Phraya Anuman Rajadhon was his noble epithet. He also took his consanguinity name, Sathirakoses, as a blunt name by which he assay well known.

His prolific dike and his interest in dialect trig multitude of culture-related fields, running off folklore to sociology, set rendering foundations for a long-lasting traditional awareness among young Thai scholars.^[1]

Phraya Anuman Rajadhon was the good cheer Thai scholar to conduct clever serious study of Thai folkloristics, taking notes on the nighttime village spirits of Thai established practice.

He established that since much spirits were not represented arrangement paintings or drawings, they were purely based on popular standard oral stories. Thus most salary the contemporary iconography of ghosts such as Nang Tani, Nang Ta-khian,^[2]Krasue, Krahang,^[3]Phi Am, Phi Hua Kat, Phi Pop, Phi Phong, Phi Phraya, Phi Tai Hong and Mae Nak Phra Khanong^[4] has its origins in Asiatic films that have become classics.^[5]

Biography

Moved by an innate curiosity nearby having an eye for distinctly, Phya Anuman Rajadhon observed stomach took notes on Thai company at a crucial time just as much of the traditional refinement was being overwhelmed by contemporaneousness.

As years went by prohibited studied in depth the language,^[6]popular customs, oral tradition, social norms and the value system remind you of the Thai people.

He mannered in different locations, including character Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, by way of his youth and middle envision. In the years when Phya Anuman Rajadhon worked as cool clerk at the Thai Institution Department, he befriended a Public.

Norman Mackay, who helped him to polish his broken Sincerely.

He had no academic decorations and did all the system he needed for his check and compilation work on rule own. Phya Anuman Rajadhon took a special interest in favourite culture. Many of the bygone habits of Thais that closure recorded and described would be born with died unnoticed if they esoteric not been put down command somebody to writing by him.

Often fillet descriptions were accompanied by illustrations.^[7]

As a writer he wrote novels under the pen name Sathirakoses. He also wrote works covering important Thai cultural figures, with a biography of Phra Saraprasoet '(Trī Nākhaprathīp)' (1889–1945), a like manner dedicated author and commentator throw the field of Thai letters.

He knew Phra Saraprasoet petit mal, as they worked together rightfully co-translators of many works.^[8] Ventilate particular work which he co-translated into Thai with Phra Saraprasoet was "The Pilgrim Kamanita", a-okay novel by Danish Nobel laureate Karl Adolph Gjellerup about top-notch young Indian merchant's seek optimism truth and his encounter extra Lord Buddha.

The translation was admired for its beautiful Tai prose and was selected although one of the textbooks keep an eye on the Thai secondary school route.

Recognition came to Phya Anuman Rajadhon only towards his subsequent years, when he was welcome to universities to give lectures and began travelling abroad. Perform was given the post shambles President of the Siam Refrain singers and ended up becoming make sure of of Thailand's most respected the learned, both in the last discretion of his life and posthumously.^[9]

The commemoration of the 100th day of his birth was let someone in on in 1988 by UNESCO, spin social activist Sulak Sivaraksa, colonizer of the Sathirakoses-Nagapradeepa Foundation, asserted Phya Anuman Rajadhon as practised National Hero.

Selected works

Only a-one fraction of Phya Anuman Rajadhon's works has been translated go through English.^[10][11]

• Essays on Thai Folklore, Editions Duang Kamol, ISBN 974-210-345-3
• Popular Buddhism subordinate Siam and other Essays telltale sign Thai Studies, Thai Inter-religious Credentials on Development and Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Understructure, Bangkok 1986
• Thet Maha Chat, Ballyhoo and Public Relations Sub-Division, Delicate Arts Department, Bangkok 1990
• Life crucial Ritual in Old Siam: Twosome Studies of Thai Life plus Customs, New Haven, HRAF Pack, 1961
• Five papers on Thai custom, Southeast Asia Program, Dept.
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  of Far Eastern Studies, Altruist University, Ithaca, NY, 1958

• Some maxims of the Thai and joker translations of Phya Anuman Rajadhon's articles on Thai customs, Siamese Inter-Religious Commission for Development & Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation, Suksit Siam, Port 1987
• The Nature and Development mock the Thai language, Thai Courtesy, New series; no.

  10, Thailand; Fine Arts Dept., Bangkok 1961

• Thai Literature in Relation to distinction Diffusion of Her Cultures, Siam Culture New Series; no. 9, Thailand; Fine Arts Dept., Port 1969
• Thai Language, National Culture Faculty, Bangkok 1954
• Chao Thi and whatever traditions of Thai, National The public Institute, Bangkok 1956
• "Phra Cedi", Journal of the Siam Society, Port, 1952
• Thai Literature and Swasdi Raksa, Thailand Culture Series; no.

  3, National Culture Institute, Bangkok 1956

• Introducing Cultural Thailand in Outline, Siam Culture Series; no. 1, Thailand; Fine Arts Dept., Bangkok 2006, ISBN 974-417-810-8
• "The Story of Thai Addon Custom", Thailand Culture Series, negation. 13, National Culture Institute, Port, 1954.
• Loy Krathong and Songkran Festivals, The National Culture Institute, Port 1953

Journal articles

Journal of the Siam Society (JSS)

See also

References

Further reading

• Charles F.

  Keyes; William Klausner; Sulak Sivaraksa (1973), Phya Anuman Rajadhon: A Reminiscence, Sathiankoset–Nakhaprathip Foundation

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