Title: Merit and Power in the Thai Social Order<sup>1</sup>
Abstract: American AnthropologistVolume 64, Issue 6 p. 1247-1261 Free Access Merit and Power in the Thai Social Order1 L. M. HANKS JR., L. M. HANKS JR. Bennington CollegeSearch for more papers by this author L. M. HANKS JR., L. M. HANKS JR. Bennington CollegeSearch for more papers by this author First published: December 1962 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1962.64.6.02a00080Citations: 66 1 Field data were gathered in Bang Chan, Thailand, under the auspices of one of Cornell University's Thailand projects, between the years 1948 and 1957. I have drawn liberally from the field notes of my co-workers Jane R. Hanks, Lauriston Sharp, Kamol Janlekha, Robert B. Textor, Herbert Phillips, Saovanee Sudsaneh, Aram Emuran, and Jadun Kongsa, whom I would thank for their insights. My work was supported by the U. S. Fulbright Foundation in Thailand, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the American Philosophical Society, and the Social Research Council. 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