Monks and magic: Revisiting a classic study of religious ceremonies in Thailand

摘要

The first edition of Barend Jan Terwiel's classic study of religious ceremonies in Thailand, Monks and Magic, was published in 1975, followed by second and third editions in 1979 and 1994. Terwiel's work was one of several anthropological studies of Thai village religion published in the 1960s and '70s, several of which he references and/or with which he takes issue, in particular, those by Stanley J. Tambiah and Howard K. Kaufman. Terweil's study, originally a 1971 doctoral dissertation for the Australian National University, is based on the author's 1967 fieldwork at Wat Sanchao, located five kilometres outside the provincial capital of Ratchaburi in Central Thailand. For the 2012 edition Terweil revisited Wat Sanchao in November 2010, which appears as a Postscript.