title: Thailand: A Traveller's Companion
author: Various Authors
description: <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="588" style="border-collapse:collapse;"><tr style="height:45pt;"><td style="width:441pt;padding:0.75pt 0.75pt 0pt 0.75pt;border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none" valign="top" width="588"><span><span>Numerous specialists and academics have contributed to Thailand: A Traveller&rsquo;s Companion, including William Warren, David Stone, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni and Philip Cornwel-Smith. Featuring more than 1500 illustrations and photographs, Thailand: A Traveller&rsquo;s Companion is one of the most colourful books ever created on Thailand.</span></span><br /></td></tr></table>
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  A priest of Bang Chan  
  Photo by Ewing Krainin
  
  
  BANG CHAN
  
  ![Images](Image00001.gif)
  
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  Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand
  
  LAURISTON SHARP and LUCIEN M. HANKS  
    
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  Cornell University Press
  
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  Ithaca and London  
    
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  To Ruth and Jane
  
  
  ##  Contents
  
    1. [Preface](text00005.html#PrintPage_FM_13)
    2. [1\. Departure](text00006.html#PrintPage_Ch01_19)
    3. [ The Road to Bang Chan ](text00006.html#sec1)
    4. [ The Community ](text00006.html#sec2)
    5. [ The Cornell Thailand Project ](text00006.html#sec3)
    6. [ The Destination ](text00006.html#sec4)
    7. [2\. The Dispensable Ones](text00007.html#PrintPage_Ch02_35)
    8. [ From City to Wilderness ](text00007.html#sec5)
    9. [ Economics, the Social Order, and Kinship ](text00007.html#sec6)
    10. [ Neighbors in the Wilderness ](text00007.html#sec7)
    11. [3\. Newcomers](text00008.html#PrintPage_Ch03_60)
    12. [ A New Hamlet ](text00008.html#sec8)
    13. [ Disaster ](text00008.htm