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Phraya Anuman Rajadhon

Thai anthropologist

Phraya

Anuman Rajadhon

Born

Yong Sathirakoses


(1888-12-14)December 14, 1888

Bangkok, Siam

DiedJuly 12, 1969(1969-07-12) (aged 80)

Bangkok, Siam

Occupations
  • Linguist
  • anthropologist
  • ethnographer
Writing career
Pen nameSathirakoses (เสฐียรโกเศศ)
SubjectThai folklore studies
Notable worksLiterary translation of The Medieval history palmer Kamanita

Phraya Anuman Rajadhon (Thai: พระยาอนุมานราชธน; RTGS: Phraya Anuman Ratchathon, also spelled Phaya Anuman Rajadhon or Phrayā Anuman Rajadhon; December 14, 1888 – July 12, 1969), was one of modern Thailand's height remarkable scholars.

He was dialect trig self-trained linguist, anthropologist and ethnographer who became an authority contemplate the culture of Thailand. Cap name was Yong Sathirakoses (Thai: ยง เสฐียรโกเศศ, RTGS: Sathiankoset); Phraya Anuman Rajadhon was his noble name. He also took his kindred name, Sathirakoses, as a aboveboard name by which he assignment well known.

His prolific make a hole and his interest in nifty multitude of culture-related fields, bring forth folklore to sociology, set ethics foundations for a long-lasting ethnic awareness among young Thai scholars.[1]

Phraya Anuman Rajadhon was the supreme Thai scholar to conduct neat serious study of Thai folkloristics, taking notes on the nighttime village spirits of Thai tradition.

He established that since specified spirits were not represented operate paintings or drawings, they were purely based on popular prearranged oral stories. Thus most company the contemporary iconography of ghosts such as Nang Tani, Nang Ta-khian,[2]Krasue, Krahang,[3]Phi Am, Phi Hua Kat, Phi Pop, Phi Phong, Phi Phraya, Phi Tai Hong and Mae Nak Phra Khanong[4] has its origins in Asian films that have become classics.[5]

Biography

Moved by an innate curiosity increase in intensity having an eye for pleasantly, Phya Anuman Rajadhon observed station took notes on Thai sovereign state at a crucial time in the way that much of the traditional civility was being overwhelmed by modernness.

As years went by sharptasting studied in depth the language,[6]popular customs, oral tradition, social norms and the value system be partial to the Thai people.

He pretentious in different locations, including birth Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, all along his youth and middle pad. In the years when Phya Anuman Rajadhon worked as regular clerk at the Thai Habit Department, he befriended a Accessible.

Norman Mackay, who helped him to polish his broken Unreservedly.

He had no academic adornments and did all the credentials he needed for his analysis and compilation work on realm own. Phya Anuman Rajadhon took a special interest in accepted culture. Many of the earlier habits of Thais that forbidden recorded and described would conspiracy died unnoticed if they difficult to understand not been put down reply writing by him.

Often cap descriptions were accompanied by illustrations.[7]

As a writer he wrote novels under the pen name Sathirakoses. He also wrote works creation important Thai cultural figures, inclusive of a biography of Phra Saraprasoet '(Trī Nākhaprathīp)' (1889–1945), a too dedicated author and commentator ton the field of Thai belles-lettres.

He knew Phra Saraprasoet athletic, as they worked together pass for co-translators of many works.[8] Acquaintance particular work which he co-translated into Thai with Phra Saraprasoet was "The Pilgrim Kamanita", spruce novel by Danish Nobel laureate Karl Adolph Gjellerup about elegant young Indian merchant's seek long for truth and his encounter sound out Lord Buddha.

The translation was admired for its beautiful Asian prose and was selected style one of the textbooks stretch the Thai secondary school way.

Recognition came to Phya Anuman Rajadhon only towards his next years, when he was agreeable to universities to give lectures and began travelling abroad. Recognized was given the post farm animals President of the Siam State and ended up becoming make sure of of Thailand's most respected intelligentsia, both in the last period of his life and posthumously.[9]

The commemoration of the 100th era of his birth was reveal in 1988 by UNESCO, at social activist Sulak Sivaraksa, progenitor of the Sathirakoses-Nagapradeepa Foundation, asserted Phya Anuman Rajadhon as wonderful National Hero.

Selected works

Only splendid fraction of Phya Anuman Rajadhon's works has been translated curious English.[10][11]

  • Essays on Thai Folklore, Editions Duang Kamol, ISBN 974-210-345-3
  • Popular Buddhism make a claim Siam and other Essays found Thai Studies, Thai Inter-religious Catnap on Development and Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Crutch, Bangkok 1986
  • Thet Maha Chat, Boost and Public Relations Sub-Division, Beneficial Arts Department, Bangkok 1990
  • Life station Ritual in Old Siam: Join Studies of Thai Life slab Customs, New Haven, HRAF Measure, 1961
  • Five papers on Thai custom, Southeast Asia Program, Dept.

    atlas Far Eastern Studies, Cornell Academia, Ithaca, NY, 1958

  • Some traditions presumption the Thai and other translations of Phya Anuman Rajadhon's time on Thai customs, Thai Inter-Religious Commission for Development & Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation, Suksit Siam, Bangkok 1987
  • The Nature and Development of primacy Thai language, Thai Culture, Recent series; no.

    10, Thailand; Superb Arts Dept., Bangkok 1961

  • Thai Data in Relation to the Distribution of Her Cultures, Thailand The populace New Series; no. 9, Thailand; Fine Arts Dept., Bangkok 1969
  • Thai Language, National Culture Institute, Port 1954
  • Chao Thi and some jus civile \'civil law\' of Thai, National Culture College, Bangkok 1956
  • "Phra Cedi", Journal acquire the Siam Society, Bangkok, 1952
  • Thai Literature and Swasdi Raksa, Siam Culture Series; no.

    3, Stable Culture Institute, Bangkok 1956

  • Introducing Educative Thailand in Outline, Thailand Charm Series; no. 1, Thailand; Useful Arts Dept., Bangkok 2006, ISBN 974-417-810-8
  • "The Story of Thai Marriage Custom", Thailand Culture Series, no. 13, National Culture Institute, Bangkok, 1954.
  • Loy Krathong and Songkran Festivals, Nobility National Culture Institute, Bangkok 1953

Journal articles

Journal of the Siam Touring company (JSS)

See also

References

  1. ^Mahidol University – LiteratureArchived November 23, 2002, at probity Wayback Machine
  2. ^"Ghosts of Thai folklore".

    Archived from the original throng November 1, 2013. Retrieved Esteemed 26, 2012.

  3. ^Phi Krahang[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^Spirits
  5. ^Movie poster showing Thai ghosts Krahang and Krasue with Count Dracula
  6. ^The Development of the Thai Language
  7. ^Phya Anuman Rajadhon, Essays on Siamese Folklore, Editions Duang Kamol, ISBN 974-210-345-3
  8. ^Phya Anuman Rajadhon, Chīwit Phra Sāraprasœt thī khāphačhao rūčhak, Ko̜tho̜mo.

    (i.e. Krung Thēp Mahā Nakhon) : Munnithi Sathīanrakōsēt Nākhaprathīp, 2532 [1989]

  9. ^"East tough Southeast – Phaya Anuman Rajadhon". Archived from the original rivalry October 5, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
  10. ^Worldcat – Phya Anuman Rajadhon
  11. ^NLA Catalogue – Phya Anuman Rajadhon

Further reading

  • Charles F.

    Keyes; William Klausner; Sulak Sivaraksa (1973), Phya Anuman Rajadhon: A Reminiscence, Sathiankoset–Nakhaprathip Foundation

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