Contents

List of Images

1. Introduction: Cajoleries, Non-Human Ontology and the Importance of Thin Description in the Study of Thai Buddhist Stuff

2. Creative Engagement: The Sujavanna Wua Luang and Its Contribution to Buddhist Literature

3. Ethnicity and the Galactic Polity: Ideas and Actualities in the History of Bangkok

4. Beautifully Buddhist and Betrothed: Marriage and Buddhism as Described in the Jatakas

5. The Bird in the Corner of the Painting: Some Problems with the Use of Buddhist Texts to Study Buddhist Ornamental Art in Thailand

6. The Material Turn: An Introduction to Thai Sources for the Study of Buddhist Amulets

7. Strolling through Temporary Temples: Modern Buddhist Art Installations in Thailand

8. This Hindu Holy Man is a Thai Buddhist

9. Encountering Corpses: Notes on Zombies and the Living Dead in Buddhist Southeast Asia

10. Buddhist "Nuns" ( mae chi) and the Teaching of Pali in Contemporary Thailand

Bibliography
Index