...e individual need not adhere to the norms of morality that existed in the Christian villages of the past or in the Buddhist communities of this book.... ...ings (Bangkok Post, The Nation) and even some artefacts. As is the wont of anthropologists, I have kept a diary of events in the country. As for field... ... their old places. The village is also unusual in that it contains a small Christian parish with its own church, and the new village chief, elected in... ...h with its own church, and the new village chief, elected in 1998, is also Christian. From the Chiang Rai highway, before the north-eastern mountain f... ...as, as if in a post-modern style. The houses might have round turrets like knights' castles, Spanish patios, arched windows, Greek columns and statues... ...s ago, talk of delocal agriculture was a source of aggravation to cultural anthropologists, who believed that old cultures do not disappear, but repro... ... BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, Inez 1948. Rice Cultivation in Asia. American Anthropologist 50, 256–282. Agricultural Revolution in Southeast Asia 1–11...

...ss and right- ness no untried thing may share. It has ripened, it has been christened with blood, it has been stained and mellowed by handling, it has... ... was not specifically of differ- ent race. But this is a Utopia as wide as Christian charity, and white and black, brown, red and yellow, all tints of... ...Yes. Now.” “Need it go on?” “What do you mean?” “Lady in trouble,” I say. “Knight at hand. Why not stop this dismal grizzling and carry her off?” (You... ...ernment, and the State. Plato and Campanella—for all that the latter was a Christian priest— carried communism to its final point and prescribed even ... ... and with a woven purple hem. His general effect reminds me somehow of the Knights T emplars. On his head is a cap of thin leather and still thinner s... ... that blow with my green British Museum ticket, as tattered as a flag in a knight’s chapel. “You’ll get found out,” he says, with my documents in his ... ... energetic Kinetic is probably the nearest thing to that ideal our earthly anthropologists have in mind when they speak of the “Nor- mal” human being....

...eek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Liberal Christianity shows it— Optimism as encouraged by Popular Science— The “Mind... ...rieties of Religious Experience ness”— Yoga— Buddhistic mysticism— Sufism— Christian mystics— Their sense of revelation— Tonic effects of mystic state... ...er a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am par... ...ows the con- ventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan. His religion has been made for him by others, com... ...secondary or even tertiary order. But, quite apart from the fact that many anthropologists—for instance, Jevons and Frazer —expressly oppose “religion... ...chts!” This ideal of the well-born man without possessions was embodied in knight-errantry and templardom; and, hideously corrupted as it has always b... ...James is a curious flavor of superficiality about her genius. A Birmingham anthropologist, Dr. Jordan, has divided the human race into two types, whom... ... function, apart from economical considerations. The saint’s type, and the knight’s or gentleman’s type, have al- ways been rival claimants of this ab...